This verse gives the reason why Yahweh refused to hear the prophet’s intercession. The due punishment has been delayed to the point of weariness, a…

You have forsaken me. —The Hebrew word has the stronger sense of rejecting or repudiating as well as simply leaving, and …

The Prophet shows here that the severe punishment he had spoken of could not be considered unjust, as those complaining men thought, who continuall…

You have forsaken me, says the Lord
His worship, as the Targum; and had set up idols, and idol worship; and this was…

The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The posing of this as a hypothetical situation, even if they were to stand …

Here, the prophet gives the reason for their rejection.

1. First, a question of wonder is presented, which excludes three things:

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