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In this chapter, Isaiah addressed those Jews who presented themselves as devout but were indulging in a wide variety of idolatrous and pernicious practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malbim\u2019s* commentary to vs. 2-3-4 has the effect of making their misconduct appear all the worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI spread out My hands\u201d and approached them. I beseeched them; I sought them out. Not once, but every day and always. But they were a disloyal and rebellious people \u201cwho walk the way that is not good following their own designs.\u201d They followed an evil path not out of error or miscalculation, but deliberately and consciously since they had contemplated and analyzed which path to choose and still ended up choosing the evil path of deviation and heresy. (2)<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only do they sin against Me, but they do so \u201cto My very face,\u201d brazenly, to spite Me. \u201cMy face\u201d [symbolizes] My providence that observes all their abominations. They \u201csacrifice in gardens\u201d to idols, and \u201coffer incense on the tiles\u201d because they hide themselves from people and are afraid to build altars for idolatry in public. In the presence of others, they pretend sanctimony as though they were God-fearing\u2026 thereby angering Me brazenly, as though they were sinning only in My presence, as though I alone would be aware. (3)<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, they spend the nights in hidden places of filth into which the carcasses of animals are cast. They spend the nights there hiding from people, and there they eat the flesh of swine out of anyone\u2019s sight. Their bowls are filled with \u201cthe broth of unclean things\u201d and they eat impure foods in impure places, hidden from other people. But it is in My sight; I see them there. (4)<\/span><\/p>\n

As bad as it would have been had they sinned only to satisfy their appetites (the Talmud calls this <\/span>mumar lete\u2019av<\/span><\/em>on<\/em>), their misbehavior is all the worse because it was considered and deliberate. The effrontery to commit these sins in the very sight of God was a brazen attempt to goad Him into reacting (<\/span>mumar lehakh`is<\/span><\/em>) and their pretense at sanctimony was but hypocrisy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*For the significance of Malbim\u2019s commentary to the Book of Isaiah,<\/span> see our introduction to chapter 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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