Verse 9
9. They that make… image… vanity The subject is, heathendom itself can be called and become, like yourselves, my witnesses. They make idols which they know to be nothing.
They are their own witnesses Or, Their witnesses are these things. That is, the heathen are fully aware that dumb idols can testify to absolutely nothing. “Their,” means, these makers and worshippers of idols. “These,” that is, the idols themselves. The folly of idolatry is a mark of fatuity in those engaged in it, and must lead to manifest shame. Not to shame merely, but to alarm also, when they assemble to put their system to the test.
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