12Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
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Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-13)The deliverance of Israel by the destruction of Babylon (the general subject of all these chapters) is here insisted upon, and again promised, for the conviction both of idolaters who set up as rivals with God, and of oppressors who were enemies to the people of God. I. For the conviction of those who made and worshipped idols, especially those of Israel who did so, who would have images of their…
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