18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-18)We have here a description of the apostasy of Israel from God, which would shortly come to pass, and to which already they had a disposition. One would have thought that a people under so many obligations to their God, in duty, gratitude, and interest, would never have turned from him; but, alas! they turned aside quickly . Here are two great instances of their wickedness, and each of them amounte…
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