12O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
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Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. …
And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: …
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)By the civil message which the king sent to Jeremiah it appeared that both he and the people began to have a respect for him, which it would have been Jeremiah’s policy to make some advantage of for himself; but the reply which God obliges him to make is enough to crush the little respect they begin to have for him, and to exasperate them against him more than ever. Not only the predictions in the…
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