6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; …
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-8)We may observe here, 1. The plentiful provision God had made for Israel and the seasonable supplies he had blessed them with (Hos. 14:5): “ I did know thee in the wilderness , took cognizance of thy case and made provision for thee, even in a land of great drought , when thou wast in extreme distress, and when no relief was to be had in an ordinary way.” See a description of this wilderness, Deut.…
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