7As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. …
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here is I. Judgment threatened against Judah and Jerusalem. The city and the country were at this time secure and under no apprehension of danger; they saw no cloud gathering, but every thing looked safe and serene: but the prophet tells them that they shall shortly be invaded by a foreign power, an army shall be brought against them from the north , which shall lay all waste, and shall cause not…
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