“And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.”
Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his own heritage. God's wrath becomes active ('kindled') and intensely personal: he 'abhorred his own heritage,' finding his covenant people repugnant. The emotional language ('abhor') suggests that God's response is not merely judicial but involves a personal sense of betrayal. This verse portrays covenant-breaking as evoking profound divine revulsion.
Church Fathers on Psalms 106:36
1. This Psalm also has the title Allelujah prefixed to it: and this twice. But some say, that one Allelujah belongs to the end of the former Psalm, the other to the beginning of this. And they assert, that all the Psalms bearing this title have Allelujah at the end, but not all at the beginning; so that they will not allow any Psalm which has not Allelujah at the end, to have it at the beginning; supposing that what seems to belong to the commencement, really belongs to the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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