36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
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How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. …
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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