40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. …
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40-46)Here the chapter concludes with gracious promises of the return of God’s favour to them upon their repentance, that they might not (unless it were their own fault) pine away in their iniquity . Behold, with wonder, the riches of God’s mercy to a people that had obstinately stood it out against the judgments of God, and would never think of surrendering till they were reduced to the last extremity.…
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