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I. It is an abandonment to a life MOST DEGRADING. In it the man sinks into a brute. The brutal appetites govern him; the brutal pleasures engross his power and absorb his time.

II. It is an abandonment to a life MORALLY ABHORRENT. Is there a more loathsome spectacle in the universe to the rational eye of moral purity than that of a being having the moral attributes, relations, and form of a man living the mere life of a brute?

III. It is an abandonment to a life OF RUIN.

1. The law of its enjoyments is decrease. The animal pleasures of men, unlike their intellectual and spiritual, decrease in their power of delectation by repetition. Age deadens the nerves, and "desire faileth," and gradually the once delicious palls on the soul. It gradually brings on the awful, crushing ennui.

2. The continuation of its enjoyments is necessarily short. Disease and death terminate them.

3. The memory of its enjoyments must become morally painful — "Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime," etc.

(Homilist.)

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KJV: But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

WEB: But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.