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A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Upon the high places - Upon those bare table-lands, which previously had been the scene of Israel’s idolatries (Jeremiah 3:2). T…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

A voice was heard. —Yes, the guilty wife was there, but she was also penitent. The “high places” which had been the scene of the g…

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

CharlesSpurgeon

19th Century
Baptist
19th Century

And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father and shalt not turn away from me. Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have y…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

What I have stated now becomes more evident—that the case of the Israelites is here set before the Jews, so that the perverse, whom God had spared,…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

A voice was heard upon the high places
And so might be heard afar off; it shows that the repentance and confession o…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. And forgetting the Lord our God is at the bottom of all sin. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. The prom…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century
  1. Here, the author discu es the fruit of their return.
    1. First, he speaks of the nece ity of their being called back regarding their own…

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