28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
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And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. …
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. …
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)God, having shown the people that the temple would not protect them while they polluted it with their wickedness, here shows them that their sacrifices would not atone for them, nor be accepted, while they went on in disobedience. See with what contempt he here speaks of their ceremonial service (Jer. 7:21). “ Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices ; go on in them as long as you please; add o…
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