20Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-21)Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a figure, to make it the more taken notice of and the more affecting (Jer. 13:12): Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine ; that is, those that by their sins have made themselves vessels of wrath fitted to destruction shall be filled wit…
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