16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)The people of God in captivity, who reconciled themselves to the will of God in their affliction and were content to wait his time for their deliverance, are here assured that they should not wait in vain. I. They are invited to enquire concerning the issue of their troubles, Isa. 45:11. The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker , though he does not allow them to strive with him, yet encourages them,…
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