Should ye not heare the words] Or, are not these the words. Hath not God sufficiently declared his will concerning these externall actions, and especially concerning a fast, profaned through wickednesse? Isa. 58. 3, 4. by the former prophets] Heb. by the hand of, &c. Jerusalem was inhabited] Or, on foot: or, in it former state. the south and the plain] Those parts of Judea, which had most felt the desolations of warre. See Jeremiah 17:26. and Jeremiah 32:44.