22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
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Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. …
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. …
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. …
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-30)Here, I. The woeful degeneracy of Judah and Jerusalem is sadly lamented. See, 1. What the royal city had been, a faithful city, faithful to God and the interests of his kingdom among men, faithful to the nation and its public interests. It was full of judgment ; justice was duly administered upon the thrones of judgment which were set there, the thrones of the house of David , Ps. 122:5. Men were…
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