13Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
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A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. …
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
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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