10And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
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And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: …
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-14)The prophet here is made a type of Christ, as the prophet Isaiah sometimes was; and the scope of these verses is to show that for judgment Christ came into this world (John 9:39), for judgment to the Jewish church and nation, which were, about the time of his coming, wretchedly corrupted and degenerated by the worldliness and hypocrisy of their rulers. Christ would have healed them, but they would…
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