31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
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By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-34)Here is, 1. The view which Solomon took of the field and vineyard of the slothful man. He did not go on purpose to see it, but, as he passed by, observing the fruitfulness of the ground, as it is very proper for travellers to do, and his subjects’ management of their land, as it is very proper for magistrates to do, he cast his eye upon a field and a vineyard unlike all the rest; for, though the s…
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