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God having, as it were on his own behalf, shown how kind he had been, calls upon them to speak now, if they knew any thing of injury, either in breach of covenant or severity, that they can charge him with, that they have thus apostatized. See Poole "Isa_1:18"; See Poole "Isa_5:3": compare Mic_6:2-4. By this manner of speech his proceeding appears the more justifiable; he both makes their conviction the clearer, and the reproof the sharper.
Walked after vanity, viz. idols, showing their folly in going from God to such vain things as idols are, Deu_32:21 1Sa_12:20,21; and see on Isa_41:29; the abstract for the concrete, Ecc_1:2.
Become vain, viz. in following their imaginations; fools,
Rom_1:21,22, as senseless as the stocks and stones that they made their idols of, Psa_115:8; and herein they are said to go far from God, and choose their delusions, Jon_2:8.