18But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
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Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? …
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: …
Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. …
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-19)We have here the people’s obstinate refusal to submit to the power of the word of God in the mouth of Jeremiah. We have scarcely such an instance of downright daring contradiction to God himself as this, or such an avowed rebellion of the carnal mind. Observe, I. The persons who thus set God and his judgments at defiance; it was not some one that was thus obstinate, but the generality of the Jews;…
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