23Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
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Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. …
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)Various methods had been used to awaken this secure and careless people to an expectation of the judgments coming, that they might be stirred up, by repentance and reformation, to prevent them. The prophecies of their ruin were confirmed by visions, and illustrated by signs, and all with such evidence and power that one would think they must needs be wrought upon; but here we are told how they eva…
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