1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
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Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The people had asked (Jer. 16:10), What is our iniquity, and what is our sin ? as if they could not be charged with any thing worth speaking of, for which God should enter into judgment with them; their challenge was answered there, but here we have a further reply to it, in which, I. The indictment is fully proved upon the prisoners, both the fact and the fault; their sin is too plain to be denie…
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