22But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
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O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-28)This charge (and a high charge it is which is here exhibited against Jacob and Israel, God’s professing people) comes in here, 1. To clear God’s justice in bringing them into captivity, and to vindicate that. Were they not in covenant with him? Had they not his sanctuary among them? Why then did the Lord deal thus with his land ? Deut. 29:24. Here is a good reason given: they had neglected God and…
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