6Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
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Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
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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