Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
delusions— (II Thessalonians 2:11), answering to "their own ways" (Isaiah 66:3; so Proverbs 1:31). However, the Hebrew means rather "vexations," "calamities," which also the parallelism to "fears" requires; "choose their calamities" means, "choose the calamities which they thought to escape by their own ways."
their fears—the things they feared, to avert which their idolatrous "abominations" (Isaiah 66:3) were practised.
I called . . . none . . . answer—(See on Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 65:24; Jeremiah 7:13).
did . . . chose—not only did the evil deed, but did it deliberately as a matter of choice (Romans 1:32). "They chose that in which I delighted not"; therefore, "I will choose" that in which they delight not, the "calamities" and "fears" which they were most anxious to avert.
before mine eyes—(See on Isaiah 65:3).
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