17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
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And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
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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