4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. …
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. …
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?
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)See what variety of methods the great God takes to awaken sinners to repentance by convincing them of sin, and showing them their misery and danger by reason of it. To this purport he speaks sometimes in plain terms and sometimes in parables, sometimes in prose and sometimes in verse, as here. “We have tried to reason with you (Isa. 1:18); now let us put your case into a poem, inscribed to the hon…
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