13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. …
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem:—1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought it upon themselves and that therefore they had no reason to quarrel with God, who did them no wrong at all, but a great deal of reason to fall out with their sins, which did them all this mischief. 2.…
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