VVHen I would have healed Israel] When by my Word I tried to correct the sinnes of my people, their secret wickednesse, and inward hardnesse hath manifested it self, as it often happeneth in bodily infirmities. wickednesse] Heb. evils. the thief cometh in] Into the house for to steal, meaning, that there was no one kinde of vice among them, but that they were subject to all kinde of wickednesse, both secret and open. spoileth] Heb. strippeth.