12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. …
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here God proceeds in his controversy with his people. Observe, I. The ground of his controversy. It was for sin that God contended with them; if they vex themselves, let them look a little further and they will see that they must thank themselves: Woe unto their souls! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Alas for their souls ! (so it may be read, in a way of lamentation), for they have pr…
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