They cryed unto them, &c.] Or, though, when they cryed unto them, &c. though they made what shift they could away, when warning thereof was given, by crying to them in the Lepers note, Lev. 13. 45. Depart ye, it is unclean,] Or, ye polluted, go some other way, for this is polluted. Numbers 19:11. depart, depart, touch not] Isaiah 52:11. Colossians 2:21. when they fled away and wandered] Or, they fled, and went some other way. they said among the heathen] So abominable were their courses, that the heathen themselves thought surely, they could not long continue. Leviticus 18:16. Micah 2:10. They shall no more sojourn there] Heb. not add to sojourn there. Isaiah 10:20. Vers. 16. 22. In the citie, or land, wherein they lived, and which they so notoriously defiled. Numbers 35:33-34. Psalms 106:38. Though some expound it of their false Prophets flattering prophecies, (of whom, vers. 13.) by which they did bear the people in hand, that their stay in Babylon and other countries, wherein they were captives, should not last long. Jer. 28. 3, 4. &29. 8. reading the words, they said, that they should not continue sojourning among the nations.