...
Harder than adamant - The stone, whatever it may be, was hard enough to cut ineffaceable characters. It was harder than flint. It would cut …

The prophet implies that true fasting is to loose the bands of wickedness and leave off oppression. But Israel had adopted quite the oppos…

And rightly so. When God requires what is so just and so commendable, and people will not yield to it, and will not even hear about it, they deserv…

The Prophet here, by referring to the fathers, more sharply reproves the Jews of his age, for he saw that they differed little from their fathers.<…

Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone
The word here used is translated a "diamond" in ([Reference Jeremi…

God's judgments upon Israel in the past for their sins were written to warn Christians. The duties required are not keeping fasts and offering sacr…
Loading sermons...
Loading catechisms...
Loading confessions...
Loading devotionals...
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes