3O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
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Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. …
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here, I. The prefaces to the message are very solemn and such as may engage our most serious attention. 1. The people are commanded to give audience: Hear you now what the Lord says . What the prophet speaks he speaks from God, and in his name; they are therefore bound to hear it, not as the word of a sinful dying man, but of the holy living God. Hear now what he saith, for, first or last, he will…
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