7How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here is, I. A challenge to produce any one right honest man, or at least any considerable number of such, in Jerusalem, Jer. 5:1. Jerusalem had become like the old world, in which all flesh had corrupted their way . There were some perhaps who flattered themselves with hopes that there were yet many good men in Jerusalem, who would stand in the gap to turn away the wrath of God; and there might be…
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