18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. …
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-18)Among the people of the Jews at this time, though they all enjoyed the same privileges and advantages, there were men of very different characters (as ever were, and ever will be, in the world and in the church), like Jeremiah’s figs, some very good and others very bad, some that plainly appeared to be the children of God and others that as plainly discovered themselves to be the children of the w…
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