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The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man who has the spirit is mad, for the abundance of your iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
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An End to Patience
Commentators agree that the phrase "the days of visitation are come" signals a decisive and unavoidable moment of reckoning. God's patience with Israel's persistent sin had reached its limit. The people, having ignored prophetic warnings, would now "know" the reality of judgment not through hearing, but through painful, firsthand experience.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually deceived the people, promising them that those days would never come. <…
19th Century
Anglican
The latter part of the verse should be translated Crazed is the prophet, mad the inspired one, because of the multitude of your iniquity, while…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet, by saying that the days of visitation had come, intended to shake off from hypocrites that complacent apathy of which we have often sp…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come In which the Lord would punish the people of Israel…
There was a time when the spiritual watchmen of Israel were with the Lord, but now they were like the snare of a fowler to entangle people to their…