12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
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Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! …
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-17)Here, I. The preface is very awful. The prophet must not only preach this, but he must write it (Isa. 30:8), write it in a table , to be hung up and exposed to public view; he must carefully note it , not in loose papers which might be lost or torn, but in a book , to be preserved for posterity, in perpetuam rei memoriam—for a standing testimony against this wicked generation; let it remain not on…
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