4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
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Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here, I. The great security of the prince’s of Jerusalem, notwithstanding the judgments of God that were upon them, The prophet was brought, in vision, to the gate of the temple where these princes sat in council upon the present arduous affairs of the city: The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s house, and behold twenty-five men were there . See how obsequi…
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