17As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. …
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. …
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-18)God’s usual method is to warn before he wounds. In these verses, accordingly, God gives notice to the Jews of the general desolation that would shortly be brought upon them by a foreign invasion. This must be declared and published in all the cities of Judah and streets of Jerusalem, that all might hear and fear, and by this loud alarm be either brought to repentance or left inexcusable. The predi…
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