7And 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.
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Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. …
I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
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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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