2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. …
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)This is the last of four chapters together that begin with woe; and they are all woes to the sinners that were found among the professing people of God, to the drunkards of Ephraim (Isa. 28:1), to Ariel (Isa. 29:1), to the rebellious children (Isa. 30:1), and here to those that go down to Egypt for help ; for men’s relation to the church will not secure them from divine woes if they live in contem…
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