“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Surpassed. in numbers, (Sym.) or rather in wickedness. Chal. Calmet.—Septuagint “because you have been incited by the,” and so forth Bible.—Judgments. You have been less attached to my service than the Gentiles have been to their idols. Some think that not is here superfluous, as it is omitted Calmet. 11:12. But it is wrong to imitate the Gentiles, and worse to surpass them in crimes.