6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The prophet, being commissioned both to foretel the destruction coming upon Judah and Jerusalem and to point out the sin for which that destruction was brought upon them, here, as elsewhere, speaks of both very feelingly: what he said of both came from the heart, and therefore one would have thought it would reach to the heart. I. He abandons himself to sorrow in consideration of the calamitous co…
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