14Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. …
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)We may observe in these verses, as before, I. The sin of this people, upon which the commission signed against them is grounded. God disowns them and dooms them to destruction, Jer. 5:10. But is there not a cause ? Yes; for, 1. They have deserted the law of God (Jer. 5:11): The house of Israel and the house of Judah , though at variance with one another, yet both agreed to deal very treacherously…
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