Thus saith the Lord – This verse is designed to keep their minds from utter despair and to a ure them that they should not be utter…

As the new wine ... —Literally, the must, or unfermented juice of the grape. The transition from the denunciatio…

Thus saith Jehovah. Here the Prophet softens the preceding statement. Otherwise, it would have been very hard to say that the iniquities o…

Thus says the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster ,
&c.] Now, lest the truly godly and gracious among thes…

In the bunch of unripe grapes, at present of no value, the new wine is contained. The Jews have been kept a distinct people, that all may witness t…

1. They have sought me. Here the judge, God, gives the sentence of separation between the wicked and the good regarding the recepti…