Thus were they defiled with their own works. The heathen "works," which they adopted from them (Psalms 106:35), had become "their own works," and made them a "defiled" and "polluted" people. And went a-whoring with their own inventions; i.
e. "became spiritually adulterous," deserted God, and were unfaithful to him (comp. Ezekiel 23:2-21; Hosea 2:2-5).