11Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state. I. God was now speaking concerning them to pluck up , and to pull down , and to destroy ; for it is that part of the rule of judgment that their case agrees with (Jer. 18:11): “ Go, and tell them” (saith God), “ Behold I frame evil against…
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