17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. …
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-20)We have here, I. The sins they were charged with, for which God brought this destruction upon them, and which served to justify God in it ( Lam. 4:13 , 14 ): It is for the sins of her prophets , and the iniquities of her priests . Not that the people were innocent; no, they loved to have it so (Jer. 5:31), and it was to please them that the prophets and priests did as they did; but the fault is ch…
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