1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word . Where God has a mouth to speak we must have an ear to hear; it is our duty, it is our interest, yet so stupid are most men that they need to be again and again called upon to hear the word of the Lord , to give audience, to give attention. Hear this word . this convincing awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well…
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