17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. …
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2. What good use we should make of the wisdom God gives us; we must use it for our own guidance in the paths of virtue, and for the arming of us again…
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