30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-37)The prophet here goes on in the same strain, aiming to bring a sinful people to repentance, that their destruction might be prevented . I. He avers the truth of the charge. It was evident beyond contradiction; it was the greatest absurdity imaginable in them to think of denying it (Jer. 2:29): “Wherefore will you plead with me, and put me upon the proof of it, or wherefore will you go about to ple…
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