11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)Two things, two evil things, both Judah and Ephraim are here charged with, and justly accused of:— I. That they were not firm to their own convictions, but were unsteady, unstable as water , Hos. 6:4 , 5 . O Ephraim! what shall I do unto thee? O Judah! what shall I do unto thee ? This is a strange expression. Can Infinite Wisdom be at a loss what to do? Can it be nonplussed, or put upon taking new…
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