13Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 12-21)The scope of these verses is to show, I. That national sins bring national judgments. When virtue is ruined and laid waste every thing else will soon be ruined and laid waste too (Ezek. 14:13): When the land sins against me , when vice and wickedness become epidemical, when the land sins by trespassing grievously , when the sinners have become very numerous and their sins very heinous, when gross ...
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