9And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
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For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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