16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
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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