14Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
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Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-22)The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and w 6716 ill not suffer either his ordinances or his providences to be brought into contempt. He addressed himself to the scornful men who ruled in Jerusalem , who were the magistrates of the city, Isa.…
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