23And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
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Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)The prophet Jeremiah has much in his writings concerning himself, much more than Isaiah had, the times he lived in being very troublesome. Here we have (as it should seem) the beginning of his sorrows, which arose from the people of his own city, Anathoth, a priest’s city, and yet a malignant one. Observe here, I. Their plot against him, Jer. 11:19. They devised devices against him , laid their he…
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