2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
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I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. …
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)One would wonder that Jerusalem, the holy city, where God was known, and his name was great, should be the city of which this black character is here given, that a place which enjoyed such abundance of the means of grace should become so very corrupt and vicious, and that God should permit it to be so; yet so it is, to show that the law made nothing perfect ; but if this be the true character of J…
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