10To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line. I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the haste which the Chaldea army made to the war ( Jer. 6:4 , 5 ); now here we have the havoc made by the war. How lamentable are the desolations here described! The enemy shall so long quarter among them, an…
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