17And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
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Matthew Henry
(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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