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59When God heard{H8804)} this, he was wroth{H8691)}, and greatly abhorred{H8799)} Israel:
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Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. …
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40-72)The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for their sins, and yet how, in judgment, he remembered mercy at last. Let not those that receive mercy from God be thereby emboldened to sin, for the mercies they receive will aggravate their sin and hast…
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