12The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
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Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. …
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; …
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. …
Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)We have here fair warning given of the destruction of the land of Israel, which was now hastening on apace. God, by the prophet, not only sends notice of it, but will have it inculcated in the same expressions, to show that the thing is certain, that it is near, that the prophet is himself affected with it and desires they should be so too, but finds them deaf, and stupid, and unaffected. When the…
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