Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me - as birds from their nest (; ).

From me - who both could and would have healed them (), had they applied to me.

Though I have redeemed them - from Egypt and their other enemies ().

Yet they have spoken lies against me - (; ). Pretending to be my worshippers, when they all the while worshipped idols (; ); also defrauding me of the glory of their deliverance, and ascribing it and their other blessings to idols. The I and the they are in the Hebrew emphatic. "I redeemed them:" their requital was, 'they spoke lies against me' (Calvin).

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