18Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
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For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. …
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
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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