12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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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