2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
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And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; …
And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year. In the wheel of nature (Jas. 3:6) sometimes one spoke is uppermost and by and by t…
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