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You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
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The Boomerang of Injustice
Commentators stress that the evil the Babylonians planned for others would ultimately return upon them. The phrase "you have sinned against your own soul" means that by harming others, they inflicted the greatest damage upon themselves, endangering their own souls and ensuring their own punishment. Wronging a neighbor is an even greater wrong to oneself.
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Habakkuk
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You have consulted shame to your house, the cutting off many people, and sinning against your soul – The wicked, whether out of passion or w…
19th Century
Anglican
And hast sinned ...—Literally, and sinning in your soul. All the time the Babylonian oppressor was plundering these peopl…
Baptist
These Chaldeans were great builders, as we know from the vast ruins that still remain; and most of their buildings were erected by labor exacted fr…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet again confirms the truth that those who consider themselves happy, imagining that they are like God, busy themselves in vain; for God w…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You have consulted shame to your house. Instead of bringing real honour and glory to their church, and that into the este…
The prophet proclaims the doom of all proud and oppressive powers that weigh heavily upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye…
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