7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
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According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos. 4:4) when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the people that love to have it so, Jer. 5:31. And it is observable here how the punishment answer…
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