AN emptie vine] Or, a vine emptying the fruit which it giveth. Whereof though the grapes were gathered (for Pul king of Assyria pild them, 2 Kings 15:20.) yet ever as it gathered new strength, it increased new wickednesse, so that the correction which should have brought them to obedience, did but utter their stubbornnesse. he hath increased the altars] Chap. 8. 11. & 12. 11. to the goodnesse of his land] As they were rich and had aboundance by the fertilitie of the land, so they became more idolatrous, Deuteronomy 32:15. images] Heb. statues or standing images.