Given to covetousness - literally, everyone has acquired gains. The mindset that gains the world is not the one that gains heaven.

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Is given to covetousness. —Literally, gained gain. The Hebrew word (Job 22:2) does not necessarily involve th…

The Prophet now declares again that it was not strange that God resolved to deal so severely with that people and to execute extreme vengeance on t…

For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, &c.] From the least in age to the oldest among them; or rather, …

When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. Their hearts were set on the world, and they were w…

1. Here, he discu es the cause of the destruction: