3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-9)We will hope to meet with a brighter and more pleasant scene before we come to the end of this book; but truly here, in the beginning of it, every thing looks very bad, very black, with Judah and Jerusalem. What is the wilderness of the world, if the church, the vineyard, has such a dismal aspect as this? I. The prophet, though he speaks in God’s name, yet, despairing to gain audience with the chi…
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