13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
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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.
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: …
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
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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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