20For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
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Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. …
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)Those that thought to hide their counsels from the Lord were said to turn things upside down (Isa. 29:16), and they intended to do it unknown to God; but God here tells them that he will turn things upside down his way; and let us see whose word shall stand, his or theirs. They disbelieve Providence: “Wait awhile,” says God, “and you shall be convinced by ocular demonstration that there is a God w…
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