17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
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Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Nothing could be expressed with more spirit and life, nor in words more proper to startle and awaken a secure and careless people, than the warning here given to Judah and Jerusalem of the approaching destruction by the Chaldeans. That is enough to make the sinners in Zion tremble—that it is the day of the Lord , the day in which he will manifest himself by taking vengeance on them. It is the grea…
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