But in this second clause something more is expressed, as it is the usual manner of Scripture to amplify. We now then see that the Jews were so bridled and checked that they in vain attempted to escape, or thought to gain anything by evasions, for their impiety was intolerable and deserved to be most severely punished by God. I will not proceed further, for it is a new discourse. For mine eyes shall be on all their ways. And I will first doubly recompense Their iniquity and their sin, Because they have polluted my land With the vileness of their detestable things, And with their abominations have fined mine inheritance.
Idolatrous practices are evidently the things referred to.
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