25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 17-25)In these verses, I. The prophet threatens, in God’s name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer. 10:17 , 18 . The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into captivity, were very secure; they thought themselves inhabitants of a fortress ; their country was their strong hold, and, in their own conceit, impregnable; but they are here told to think of leaving it: th...
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