They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the LORD’s house.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. Wine. They shall be at a distance from the temple, and in a country where the wine will not be deemed pure. The Jews will drink none which they have not made; and they usually lift up the cup, and pour out a little in God’s honour. This they could not do in Assyria, ( Calmet.) not having liberty to do all about the wine.—Sacrifices. The Israelites had long neglected to offer any in the temple, ( Bible.) though they had no hindrance. In exile, the fruits, and so forth were all accounted unclean, like meats used in mourning, ( Calmet.) which defiled those who partook of them. Deuteronomy 26:14. Numbers 19:11. “The sacrifices of heretics are the bread of mourning. They offer them not to God, but to the dead, to wicked heresiarchs.” Saint Jerome—Soul. They have need enough of it. Bible.—“Let them gratify their appetite; I love not what is unclean.” Saint Jerome