14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. …
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. …
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-16)Having seen how vicious and corrupt the court was, we now come to enquire how it is with the country, and we find that to be no better; and no marvel if the distemper that has so seized the head affect the whole body, so that there is no soundness in it; the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered , as well as the sin of Samaria , of the people as well as the princes, of which here are divers instances.…
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