8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 6-14)In there verses we have an account of the great things which God did for the Jewish nation in raising them up by degrees to be very considerable. 1. God saved them from the ruin they were upon the brink of in Egypt (Ezek. 16:6): “ When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy own blood , loathed and abandoned, and appointed to die, as sheep for the slaughter , then I said unto thee, Live . I...
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