8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
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But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)Here is the prophet again singing of mercy and judgment, not, as before, judgment to the enemies and mercy to the church, but judgment to the church and mercy mixed with that judgment. I. Here is judgment threatened even to Jacob and Israel. They shall blossom and bud (Isa. 27:6), but, 1. They shall be smitten and slain (Isa. 27:7), some of them shall. If God find any thing amiss among them, he wi…
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