Stand ye, &c. A gracious appeal to avoid the threatened calamity, as in Jer_2:2.
old paths. Compare Jer_18:15.
good = right.
find rest. Compare Mat_11:29, Mat_11:30; where a like invitation and promise is given to those who will "learn". Following likewise on a preceding threatening of judgment. Compare Deu_28:65.
your souls = yourselves (emphatic). Hebrew. nephesh.