Lam 5:16-17, Eze 22:25-31, Dan 9:5-19, Mic 3:9-12, 7:13 | TSK | STEP | The crown. is fallen from our head. Heb. of our head is fallen. woe.

prophets.The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.

25; 13:10-16; Isa 30:10; Jer 8:10,11

seeing.

13:22,23; 21:29; Jer 23:25-32; La 2:14; Zep 3:4

Thus saith the Lord.

13:6,7; Jer 23:21; 28:2,15; 29:8,9; 37:19

people.

7; 18:12; Isa 5:7; 10:2; 59:3-7; Jer 5:26-28,31; 6:13; Am 3:10

Mic 2:2; 3:3; Jas 5:4

oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.

7; 22:7; Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 19:33; Ps 94:6; Mt 25:43

wrongfully. Heb. without right.

I sought.God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.

Isa 59:16; 63:5; Jer 5:1

make.

13:5; Ge 18:23-32; Ex 32:10-14; Ps 106:23; Jer 15:1

have I poured.

21,22

their own.

7:3,8,9; 9:10; 11:21; 16:43; Ro 2:8,9

Daniel 9:5-19

have sinned.

15; 1Ki 8:47-50; 2Ch 6:37-39; Ezr 9:6; Ne 1:6-8; 9:33,34; Ps 106:6

Isa 64:5-7; Jer 3:25; 14:7

departing.

Ps 18:21; 119:102; Isa 59:13; Eze 6:9; Ho 1:2; Mal 3:7; Heb 3:12

have we.

10; 2Ki 17:13,14; 2Ch 33:10; 36:15,16; Isa 30:10,11; Jer 6:16,17

Jer 7:13,25,26; 25:3-7; 26:5; 29:19; 32:32,33; 44:4,5,16; Zec 1:4-6

Zec 7:8-12; Mt 21:34-40; 23:37; Lu 20:10-12; Ac 7:51,52; 13:27

1Th 2:15,16

our kings.

Ezr 9:7; Ne 9:32,34

righteousness.

8,14; De 32:4; Ezr 9:13; Ne 9:33; Ps 51:4,14; 119:137; Jer 12:1

Lu 23:40,41

belongeth unto thee. or, thou hast, etc. unto us.

Ezr 9:6,7; Ps 44:15; Isa 45:16; Jer 2:26,27; 3:25; Eze 16:63; 36:31

Ro 6:21

near.

De 4:27; 2Ki 17:6,7; Isa 11:11; Jer 24:9; Am 9:9; Ac 2:5-11

whither.

Le 26:33,34

to us.

6,7

because.

Jer 14:20; La 1:7,8,18; 3:42; 5:16

To the Lord.From God's goodness flow His mercies; and from His mercies, forgiveness.

7; Ex 34:6,7; Nu 14:18,19; Ne 9:17,31; Ps 62:12; 86:5,15; 130:4,7

Ps 145:8,9; Isa 55:7; 63:7; La 3:22,23; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18,19

Eph 1:6-8; 2:4-7

though.

5; Ne 9:18,19,26-28; Ps 106:43-45; Jer 14:7; Eze 20:8,9,13

which.

6; 2Ki 17:13; 18:12; Ezr 9:10,11; Ne 9:13-17; Heb 1:1

all.

2Ki 17:18-23; Isa 1:4-6; Jer 8:5-10; 9:26; Eze 22:26-31

the curse.

Le 26:14-46; De 27:15-26; 28:15-68; 29:20-29; 30:17-19; 31:17,18

De 32:19-42

confirmed.

Isa 44:26; La 2:17; Eze 13:6; Zec 1:8; Mt 5:18; Ro 15:8

our judges.

1Ki 3:9; Job 12:17; Ps 2:10; 148:11; Pr 8:16

for under.The destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and the condition of the Jews during almost eighteen centuries, have far more exceeded all the miseries of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and in the Babylonish captivity, than those miseries exceeded the judgments inflicted on other nations; for the guilt of crucifying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel, was immensely more atrocious than all their other transgressions.

La 1:12; 2:13; 4:6; Eze 5:9; Joe 2:2; Am 3:2; Mt 24:21; Mr 13:19

Lu 21:22

As it is.Thus every succeeding part of the Sacred writings attests and prove the Divine authority of the preceding. The history relates the fulfilment of former predictions; and then new prophecies are add, which future events accomplish, and thus demonstrate their inspiration to the latest ages.

11; Le 26:14-46; De 28:15-68; Isa 42:9; La 2:15-17; Joh 10:35

made we not our prayer before. Heb. intreated we not theface of.

Job 36:13; Isa 9:13; Jer 2:30; 5:3; Ho 7:7,10,14

that we.

De 29:4; Ps 85:4; 119:18,27,73; Isa 64:7; Jer 31:18; 44:27; La 5:21

Lu 24:45; Joh 6:45; 8:32; Eph 1:17,18; 4:21; Jas 1:5

watched.

Jer 31:28; 44:27

the Lord.

7; Ne 9:33; Ps 51:14

for.

that hast.