23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. …
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. …
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-39)After God had set the blessing before them (the life and good which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient), he here sets the curse before them, the death and evil which would make them as miserable if they were disobedient. Let them not think themselves so deeply rooted as that God’s power could not ruin them, nor so highly favoured as that his justice would not ruin them if the…
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