If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

“Those who are not saved always are taking care of those things that do not profit or benefit them in any way. So what kind of excuse is there for a Christian who withdraws from the assembly of the church? Such a person does not even imitate the Gentiles but by reason of his absence grows indifferent and careless. He stands aloof and does evil. The Lord said, … You have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, "you were more corrupt than they in all your ways." How, then, shall the indifferent excuse himself, since he has no zeal for the assembly of the church? If anyone takes the occasion of worldly business to withdraw, let him know this: the trades of the faithful are called works of surplus, for their true work is religion. Pursue your trades, therefore, as a work of surplus, for your sustenance, but let your true work be religion.”

“This alone among all evils is without comparison. This is a new act of shamelessness in life. "Go over to the islands of Kittim and see," the Lord says. "Send to Kedar and consider carefully whether anything like this has ever been done—if a nation has changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.)." But the virgin "has changed her glory," and her glory is in her shame.”

“The same erroneous notion by which they used to worship devils formed in the figure of people they use even now in thinking that the incomprehensible and ineffable glory of the true Deity should be worshiped under the limitations of some figure. They think they are unable to grasp and hold anything if they do not have some image set before them that they can continually address while they are at their devotion and that they can carry about in their mind and have always fixed before their eyes.… Jeremiah also says, "My people have changed their glory for an idol."”

“Here he aggravates their guilt from the enormity of the deed: and first he sets forth what he intends, namely judgment: 'I will yet contend' — concerning the enormity, as before for ingratitude — 'with the children,' who imitate the malice of their fathers. Mich. 6: 'The judgment of the Lord is with his people, and with Israel he will be judged.' Second, he carries out his proposal, showing in the judgment the enormity of the sin: and first from a comparison of worshippers: 'Pass over,' by consideration — 'Cethim': the Westerners beyond Cyprus, or the city named Cedar, where the Ishmaelites dwell. 'If a nation has changed'; as if he were to say, it has not changed. Hence it is clear that in comparison with others they are condemned. Ezech. 5: 'She has despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the nations, and my precepts more than the lands that are round about her.' Second, from a comparison of gods, bursting forth into astonishment: 'be astonished'; as if he were to say: if it were possible, the heavens would be astonished; or the Angels, who are in the heavens, as the city of its king. 'Its gates' — the more principal among the Angels, who are as princes and judges of the others. Likewise Isa. 1: 'Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken.' Second, he adds the reason for the astonishment. For there are two things, against two parts of the precept. Exod. 20: 'I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You shall not have strange gods before me,' et cetera. And again: 'You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make gods of gold for yourselves.' 'The fountain of water' — I who can give them true consolation. Psal. 35: 'With you is the fountain of life.' 'Cisterns' — idols, which cannot save — 'they have dug,' because they themselves made them. Psal. 113: 'The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.'”

“Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this,.... Meaning either the angels in heaven, or the heavens themselves, by a personification: and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord; all which may be signified by storms and tempests, by thunder and lightning, and by the sun's withdrawing its light. This is said to aggravate the wickedness committed, as if the heavens blushed and were ashamed, and were confounded and amazed at it; and as if, on account of it, the Jews deserved not the benefit of the heavens, and the orbs in them.”

“glory--Jehovah, the glory of Israel (Psa 106:20; Rom 1:23). The Shekinah, or cloud resting on the sanctuary, was the symbol of "the glory of the Lord" (Kg1 8:11; compare Rom 9:4). The golden calf was intended as an image of the true God (compare Exo 32:4-5), yet it is called an "idol" (Act 7:41). It (like Roman Catholic images) was a violation of the second commandment, as the heathen multiplying of gods is a violation of the first. not profit-- (Jer 2:8).”