12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
And 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:
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
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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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