15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. …
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; …
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)Though the land of Egypt had of old been a house of bondage to the people of God, where they had been ruled with rigour, yet among the unbelieving Jews there still remained much of the humour of their fathers, who said, Let us make us a captain and return into Egypt . Upon all occasions they trusted to Egypt for help (Isa. 30:2), and thither they fled, in disobedience to God’s express command, whe…
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