29Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-31)Here, I. The prophet shows them what mischief their sins had done them: They have turned away these things (Jer. 5:25), the former and the latter rain , which they used to have in due season (Jer. 5:24), but which had of late been withheld (Jer. 3:3), by reason of which the appointed weeks of harvest had sometimes disappointed them. “It is your sin that has withholden good from you , when God was…
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