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You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies; for you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
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The Deliberate Harvest of Sin
Commentators explain that the imagery of farming—plowing, reaping, and eating—shows that Israel's sin was not accidental but a deliberate, cultivated practice. They actively worked to produce wickedness, and as a result, they harvested a crop of iniquity. This illustrates the principle that sin is an investment that yields only more sin and its destructive consequences.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You have plowed wickedness – They not only did not do what God commanded, but they did the exact contrary. They cultivated wickedness. They …
19th Century
Anglican
Your way. — By a slight change of the Hebrew word rendered this way, it acquires the meaning, your chariots, a reading fo…
16th Century
Protestant
The reason is found here why I thought that the Prophet did not simply exhort the people, but rather charged them with obduracy for not growing bet…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You have ploughed wickedness Contrived it, and took a great deal of pains to commit it; by ploughing sowed it, and w…
Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, He therefore, in mercy, desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remai…
