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I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
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God's Tool, Babylon's Crime
Commentators unanimously explain that God used Babylon as an instrument to discipline His people for their sins. However, Babylon went far beyond its role as a chastiser, acting with excessive cruelty and pride. This illustrates a key biblical principle: God can use a nation for His sovereign purposes while still holding that nation accountable for its own sinful actions and motives.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I was wroth with my people - In this verse and the following, a reason is assigned why God would deal so severely with her. One of the reaso…
19th Century
Anglican
I was wroth with my people ... —The sin of Babylon was that she had gone beyond her commission as the chastiser of Israel…
16th Century
Protestant
I was angry with my people. This is an anticipation, by which He forewarns the Jews, as He has often done previously, that the distressing…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I was wroth with my people The people of Israel, for their sins and transgressions, particularly their idolatries. Here b…
Babylon is represented under the emblem of a female in deep distress. She was to be degraded and endure sufferings; and is represented sitting on t…
13th Century
Catholic
Come down, and sit in the dust. Here the prophet foretells the degradation of the kingdom of Babylon. In this regard, he does th…
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