11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
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But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. …
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: …
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-13)Here is, 1. An enquiry made into the reasons why God would bring those judgments upon them (Jer. 16:10): When thou shalt show this people all these words , the words of this curse, they will say unto thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us ? One would hope that there were some among them that asked this question with a humble penitent heart, desiring to know what was…
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