2I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
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But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. …
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The apostle Paul (an expositor we may depend upon) has given us the true sense of these verses, and told us what was the event they pointed at and were fulfilled in, namely, the calling in of the Gentiles and the rejection of the Jews, by the preaching of the gospel, Rom. 10:20 , 21 . And he observes that herein Esaias is very bold , not only in foretelling a thing so improbable ever to be brought…
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