23But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
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They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-24)The prophet, having reproved them for sin and threatened the judgments of God against them, is here sent to them again upon another errand, which he must publish in Judah ; the purport of it is to persuade them to fear God, which would be an effectual principle of their reformation, as the want of that fear had been at the bottom of their apostasy. I. He complains of the shameful stupidity of this…
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