11Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)The prophet, having shown their base ingratitude in forsaking God, here shows their unparalleled fickleness and folly (Jer. 2:9): I will yet plead with you . Note, Before God punishes sinners he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. Note, further, When much has been said of the evil of sin, still there is more to be said; when one article of the charge is made good, there is another to be…
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