42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; …
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-54)It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh; for great pains must be taken with a troubled spirit to bring it into temper. I. They confess the righ…
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