28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
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For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-38)After many terrible threatenings of deserved wrath and vengeance, we have here surprising intimations of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of sinners , but would rather they should turn and live . I. In jealousy for his own honour, he will not make a full end of them, Deut. 32:26-28. 1. It cannot be denied but th…
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