16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. …
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)What is the meaning of this? Does there proceed out of the same mouth blessing and cursing ? Could he that said so cheerfully (Jer. 20:13), Sing unto the Lord, praise you the Lord , say so passionately (Jer. 20:14), Cursed be the day wherein I was born ? How shall we reconcile these? What we have in these verses the prophet records, I suppose, to his own shame, as he had recorded that in the foreg…
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