62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 55-65)We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet’s breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Ps. 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror; for in these verses he concludes with some comfort. And here are two things with which he comf…
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