6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. …
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)It is excellent doctrine that is preached in these verses, and of general concern and use to us all, and it does not appear to have any particular reference to the present state of Judah and Jerusalem. The prophet’s sermons were not all prophetical, but some of them practical; yet this discourse, which probably we have here only the heads of, would be of singular use to them by way of caution not…
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