15. ROSENMULLER
translates, "They ought to have been ashamed,
because . . . but," &c.; the Hebrew verb often expressing, not the
action, but the duty to perform it
(Ge 20:9;
Mal 2:7).
MAURER translates, "They shall be put to shame,
for they commit abomination; nay (the prophet correcting himself),
there is no shame in them"
(Jer 3:3; 8:12;
Eze 3:7;
Zep 3:5).
them that fall--They shall fall with the rest of their people who
are doomed to fall, that is, I will now cease from words; I will execute
vengeance [CALVIN].
JFB.
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