For the people ... - This is a reason why his anger would not cease, and it is, at the same time, the suggestion of a new crime for which th…

For the people turneth not ... —What follows was the word that was meant for all Israel. They had not “turned” to the Lord; there …

But the people have not turned. The conjunction ו (vau) is translated by some interpreters as for, as if the Prophet wer…

For the people turneth not to him that smiteth them
Who was the Lord of hosts, as it is explained in the next clause…

Those are ripening quickly for ruin whose hearts remain unhumbled under humbling providences. For what God intends when He afflicts us is to turn u…

1. The Lord sent a word into Jacob. Here, he describes the sequence of punishment according to its various types.

Firs…