33And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
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The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. …
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-40)The profaneness of the people, with that of the priests and prophets, is here reproved in a particular instance, which may seem of small moment in comparison of their greater crimes; but profaneness in common discourse, and the debauching of the language of a nation, being a notorious evidence of the prevalency of wickedness in it, we are not to think it strange that this matter was so largely and…
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