12Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
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Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? …
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)Here, I. God gives Jeremiah, in vision, a view of the principal errand he was to go upon, which was to foretel the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, for their sins, especially their idolatry. This was at first represented to him in away proper to make an impression upon him, that he might have it upon his heart in all his dealings with this people. 1. He intimates to him that th…
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