10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! …
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; …
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. …
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)Here, I. The prophet experiences a divine power going along with him in his work, and he makes a solemn profession and protestation of it, as that which would justify him, and bear him out, in his plain dealing with the princes and rulers. He would not, he durst not, make thus bold with the great men, but that he was carried out to do it by a prophetical impulse and impression. It was not he that…
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