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a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
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Sinning 'To God's Face'
The people's sin wasn't done in secret but was a continuous, open provocation "to my face." Commentators explain this highlights the impudence and defiance of their actions. They were not ignorant but willfully disobeyed God in His very presence, making their guilt more severe.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A people - This verse contains a specification of the reasons why God had rejected them and brought the calamities upon them.
That…
19th Century
Anglican
That sacriflceth in gardens. —It is not without significance, as bearing on the date of the chapter, that the practice was common …
16th Century
Protestant
A people that provoketh me. Here he describes and illustrates more fully in what ways the Jews were rebellious against God. It was because…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face, &c.] They committed their sins openly, without any fear of the…
The Gentiles came to seek God, and find him, because they were first sought and found by him. Often he meets some thoughtless trifler or profligate…
13th Century
Catholic
They have sought me. Here the judge, God, gives the sentence of separation between the wicked and the good regarding the recepti…
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