7Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 5-17)We have here the explanation of the foregoing similitude: This is Jerusalem . Thus it is usual in scripture language to give the name of the thing signified to the sign; as when Christ said, This is my body . The prophet’s head, which was to be shaved, signified Jerusalem, which by the judgments of God was now to be stripped of all its ornaments, to be emptied of all its inhabitants, and to be set...
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