35Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
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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