4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
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And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)We have here a high charge, but a just one no doubt, drawn up against that wicked generation out of which God’s righteous ones were removed, because the world was not worthy of them. Observe, I. The general character here given of them, or the name and title by which they stand indicted, Isa. 57:3. They are told to draw near and hear the charge, are set to the bar, and arraigned there as sons of t…
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