Eze 23:18, Hos 9:12, 11:8 | JFB | e4.org | 18. my mind was alienated from her —literally, "was broken off from her." Just retribution for "her mind being alienated (broken off) from the Chaldeans" ( ), to whom she had sworn fealty ( ). "Discovered" implies the open shamelessness of her apostasy.

‏ Ezekiel 23:18

18. my mind was alienated from her—literally, "was broken off from her." Just retribution for "her mind being alienated (broken off) from the Chaldeans" (Eze 23:17), to whom she had sworn fealty (Eze 17:12-19). "Discovered" implies the open shamelessness of her apostasy.

‏ Hosea 9:12

12. Even though they should rear their children, yet will I bereave them (the Ephraimites) of them (Job 27:14).

woe . . . to them when I depart—Yet the ungodly in their madness desire God to depart from them (Job 21:14; 22:17; Mt 8:34). At last they know to their cost how awful it is when God has departed (De 31:17; 1Sa 28:15, 16; compare Ho 9:11; 1Sa 4:21).

‏ Hosea 11:8

8. as Admah . . . Zeboim—among the cities, including Sodom and Gomorrah, irretrievably overthrown (De 29:23).

heart is turned within me—with the deepest compassion, so as not to execute My threat (La 1:20; compare Ge 43:30; 1Ki 3:26). So the phrase is used of a new turn given to the feeling (Ps 105:25).

repentings—God speaks according to human modes of thought (Nu 23:19). God's seeming change is in accordance with His secret everlasting purpose of love to His people, to magnify His grace after their desperate rebellion.