43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
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And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-43)Adultery was by the law of Moses made a capital crime. This notorious adulteress, the criminal at the bar, being in the foregoing verses found guilty, here has sentence passed upon her. It is ushered in with solemnity, Ezek. 16:35. The prophet, as the judge, in God’s name calls to her, O harlot! hear the word of the Lord . Our Saviour preached to harlots, for their conversion, to bring them into t…
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