goodnesse] Or, mercie, or, kindenesse. All the shews you make of converting to me, of serving and fearing me, have no firmnesse nor continuance. He hath a relation to the frequent reformations of Gods worship, which were never of any long continuance among the children of Israel, longer then Gods hand was on them. Chap. 5. 15. as a morning cloud] Which is suddenly dispersed at the rising of the Sunne.