16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. …
Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Isa. any afflicted? let him pray ; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease. They complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt: “ Remember what has come upon us , Lam. 5:1. What was of…
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