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Are not thine eyes upon the truth? The prophet, observing the obstinacy of this people, abruptly turns himself to God, yet emphatically insinuates their incorrigibleness. This may refer either to God’s discerning and knowing truth from falsehood, as being impossible that any thing should be hid from him, Psa_11:4; or rather, (more agreeably to the phrase,) to God’s approving; and this some again refer to persons, as men of truth for true men, so man of wisdom for a wise man, Mic_6:9; but others, better, to truth and faithfulness, as that which God hath a great respect for, and delight in, Psa_51:6, and was not to be found among these people. Though none of these senses be improper, this seems the most genuine.
They have not grieved; they have been under sore grievances that God hath laid them under, yet they seem unconcerned, Pro_23:35 Isa_42:25; or it is probable they were grieved at their sufferings, but they have not repented, thereby to turn away the causes of his just displeasure: see 2Co_7:9,10.
Thou hast consumed them; God had not only lightly chastised them, but wasted them by several enemies, as the Assyrian, Isa_10:5,6 36:1, and Pharaoh-nechoh, 2Ki_23:33, and the Chaldees, Syrians, Moabites, and the Ammonites, 2Ki_24:2, and Nebuchadnezzar, 2Ki_24:13, &c. All these he made use of as the rod of his indignation, yet they refused to receive correction; see Jer_2:30; a metonymy of the effect; they have profited nothing by it, not at all reformed, Isa_1:5,16 Am 4:6,8-11.
They have made their faces harder than a rock; noting their obstinacy and impudence, laying aside all sense of judgments, as past feeling, Pro_21:29 Zec_7:12. They have refused to return; wilfully rejected counsel, and slighted correction, resolving to persist in their obstinacy.