Among the smooth stones of the streams — In the original here, there is a paronomasia, which cannot be fully retained in our Englis…

Among the smooth stones ... —The worship of stones was almost as widely diffused as that of trees and serpents. In Genesi…

They had set up the smooth stones which they had found in the brook, and made them into altars—indeed, made gods of them. For when man wants to mak…

Amidst polished stones, or, in parts of the valley. He continues the same subject and rebukes in various ways the superstitions t…

Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion
Or your god; but the portion of Jacob is not like them, stocks…

The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the …

1. The just perishes. Here the prophet shows the difference between those who obey God’s counsels and those who do not, conc…