Ezekiel 8:17

Violence — All injustice is here meant towards all sorts of men, whom they first despise and next destroy. Returned — From injustice against man they return to impiety against God. The branch — As the worshippers of Bacchus waved their Thyrsus, the stalk wreathed with ivy, and bowed their bodies and often kissed the branches, so did these idolatrous Jews.