26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? …
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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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