6For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. …
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The first words of this chapter seem a direct answer to the profane atheistical demand of the scoffers of those days which closed the foregoing chapter: Where is the God of judgment ? To which it is readily answered, “Here he is; he is just at the door; the long-expected Messiah is ready to appear; and he says, For judgment have I come into this world , for that judgment which you have so impudent…
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