33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
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Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. …
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. …
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Commentary
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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