25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
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We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! …
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. …
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. …
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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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