9For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. …
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. …
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: …
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-16)We have here a long train of mourners attending the funeral of a ruined kingdom. I. The prophet is himself chief mourner ( Mic. 1:8 , 9 ): I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked , as a man distracted with grief. The prophets usually expressed their own grief for the public grievances, partly to mollify the predictions of them, and to make it appear that is was not out of ill-will that…
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