Worst of the heathen.Worst refers to the power and thoroughness of their work against the Israelites. (Comp. Deuteronomy 28:49; also Leviticus 26:19, where the word here rendered “pomp of the strong” is translated “pride of power.”) Both passages are the warnings, long ages ago, of the judgments now declared to be close at hand. “Their holy places;” no longer God’s, since He has abandoned them for the sin of the people. (See Ezekiel 11:23.)

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