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Ye have brought; either by abusing your power you have licensed, or by conniving you have permitted, to come into my holy courts.
Strangers; foreigners and heathen, who had their idols in the very courts of the temple, and there worshipped their idols, as Eze_8:5,10,14,16.
Uncircumcised in heart; the worst of them, profane and impious.
Uncircumcised in flesh: no uncircumcised one should come into the court of the people, but you have brought them into the very sanctuary at the times of public worship, and when you have been offering my bread, &c. Some think that the profane carelessness of the Jewish rulers was such, that they suffered uncircumcised ones to be priests among them, and to approach to God’s altar. This was done in Solomon’s degenerate days, and in the days of Ahaz, Manasseh, Amon.
My bread; either the meat-offering, or first-fruits of corn and dough, and the show-bread.
The fat, which was taken off the sacrifices and burnt.
The blood, how let out, received into vessels, sprinkled and poured out, the priests and rulers of my house, through a sinful familiarity with heathens, have given them courage to ask, and you have not zeal and courage enough to refuse them, but you have satisfied their forbidden curiosity, and showed them all these things; or, as was said, have advanced some to be priests in my house, and suffered others to be priests of idols, standing and worshipped in my courts.
They, the whole nation of the Jews, the people of the land,
have broken my covenant; turned idolaters, mixed with heathens, forsaken me and my law, taking example from your practices, or complying with your superstitious and idolatrous inventions.