10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
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The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: …
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)The people of the Jews are here marked for ruin. I. God is here brought in falling out with them and leaving them desolate; and they could never have been undone if they had not provoked God to desert them. It is a terrible word that God here says (Jer. 12:7): I have forsaken my house —the temple, which had been his palace; they had polluted it, and so forced him out of it: I have left my heritage…
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