13Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)Jeremiah has now returned from his public work and retired into his closet; what passed between him and his God there we have an account of in these and the following verses, which he published afterwards, to affect the people with the weight and importance of his messages to them. Here is, I. The complaint which the prophet makes to God of the many discouragements he met with in his work, Jer. 15…
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