2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. …
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. …
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great variety of expressions to the same purport, and all aggravating. I. The earth is stripped of all its ornaments and looks as if it were taken off its basis; it is made empty and waste (Isa. 24:1), as if it…
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