They are unfaithful to Yahweh; For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
Now shall a month devour - The word now denotes the nearness and suddenness of God’s judgments; the term “month,” their rapidity. A “month” is not only a brief time, but is almost visibly passing away; the moon, which measures it, is never at one stay, waxing until it is full, then waning until it disappears. Night by night bears witness to the month’s decay. The iniquity was full; the harvest was ripe; “now,” suddenly, rapidly, completely, the end should come. One month should “devour them with their portions.” God willed to be the Portion of His people; He had said, “the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance” Deuteronomy 32:9. To Himself He had given the title, “the protion of Jacob” Jeremiah 10:16. Israel had chosen to himself “other portions” out of God, for these, he had forsaken his God; therefore he should be consumed with them. “All that they had, all that they possessed, enjoyed, trusted in, all, at once, shall that short space, suddenly and certainly to come; devour, deprive and bereave them of; none of them shall remain with them or profit them in the day of wrath.”