23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
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Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-27)Here is, I. The prisoner arraigned: Make a chain , in which to drag the criminal to the bar, and set him before the tribunal of divine justice; let him stand in fetters (as a notorious malefactor), stand pinioned to receive his doom. Note, Those that break the bands of God’s law asunder , and cast away those cords from them , will find themselves bound and held by the chains of his judgments, whic…
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