The best of them is as a brier - The gentlest of them is a thorn, strong, hard, piercing, which lets nothing unresisting pass by wi…

The day of your watchmen — i.e., the time which your prophets have foreseen, about which they have continually warned you…

Sin brings sorrow in its wake; and as nations will have no future as nations, God deals with national sin here on earth and visits it with national…

The Prophet confirms what he had previously said—that the land was so full of every kind of wickedness, that those who were deemed the best were ye…

The best of them [is] as a brier Good for nothing but for burning, very hurtful and mischievous, pricking and scratching …

The prophet laments that he lived among a people swiftly ripening for ruin, a situation in which many good people would suffer. People found no com…