7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. …
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)It was the complaint of the Jews in Babylon that they saw not their signs , and there was no more prophet (Ps. 74:9), which was a just judgment upon them for mocking and misusing the prophets. We read of no prophets they had in their return, as they had in their coming out of Egypt, Hos. 12:13. God stirred them up immediately by his Spirit to exert themselves in that escape (Ezra 1:5); for, though…
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