6:1-5 The people are called upon to declare why they were weary of God's worship, and prone to idolatry. Sin causes the controversy between God and man. God reasons with us, to teach us to reason with ourselves. Let them remember God's many favours to them and their fathers, and compare with them their unworthy, ungrateful conduct toward him.

3. my people—the greatest aggravation of their sin, that God always treated them, and still treats them, as His people.

what have I done unto thee?—save kindness, that thou revoltest from Me (Jer 2:5, 31).

wherein have I wearied thee?—What commandments have I enjoined that should have wearied thee as irksome (1Jo 5:3)?