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Thus saith the Lord God: this august title is a preface to give weight to the sentence, and to affect her heart with fear.
Thy filthiness; it might be rendered money, with which she hired and bribed her lovers, which she spent upon Baal, as Hos_2:8. Her sorcery, with which she bewitched and enchanted them: her poison, infused into them she conversed with: the impudence of her carriage, as a whore with a forehead of brass, Jer_3:3.
Poured out: it includes her eagerness, constancy, and abounding in her wickedness, and most modestly upbraids her with her most immodest lasciviousness, and discovery of it.
Thy nakedness discovered: sometimes it is figuratively taken, so it may be here, though I rather think she is charged with such prostitution as the discovering the parts nature hath concealed, and modesty should keep secret.
Through thy whoredoms; in thy playing the harlot thou hast shamelessly incited thy lovers by discovery of thy secret parts.
With all the idols: as before was observed, she doted on all the idols of her neighbours and acquaintance, which become her abominations by her loving them, when she should have abhorred them.
The blood of thy children: see Eze 20,21. Adultery, idolatry, murder of her children, is the sum of this charge drawn up against her.