17Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: …
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. …
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)These verses are the substance of what we had before (Ezek. 18:20) and they are so full and express a declaration of the terms on which people stand with God (as the former were of the terms on which ministers stand) that it is no wonder that they are here repeated, as those were, though we had the substance of them before. Observe here, I. The cavils of the people against God’s proceedings with t…
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