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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.
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Forgetting God is Rejection
Commentators explain that 'forgetting' God is not a simple lapse of memory but an active, willful choice to abandon His worship and laws. The phrase 'cast me behind thy back' vividly portrays this as treating God and His commands as worthless and undesirable, deliberately putting them out of sight.
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Ezekiel
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you have forgotten me His word, worship, and ordinances, and did not attend to …
Presbyterian
A history of the apostasy of God's people from Him, and its aggravation.
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