40And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. …
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Commentary
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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