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The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
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Commentators explain this verse captures the people's arrogant response to God's judgment. Instead of repenting, they boast. They declare they will replace their fallen, cheap brick and sycamore structures with far more expensive and luxurious hewn stone and cedar. This reveals a defiant pride that scoffs at God's warning.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The bricks are fallen down - The language of this verse is figurative, but the sentiment is plain. It contains the confession of th…
19th Century
Anglican
The bricks are fallen down ... —Sun-dried bricks and the cheap timber of the sycamore (1 Kings 10:27) were th…
16th Century
Protestant
The bricks are fallen down. These are the words of men who were obstinate, and who despised the calamity they had sustained, as if it had …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The bricks are fallen down Houses made of bricks, which were without the cities besieged and destroyed by the Assyrians; …
Those are ripening quickly for ruin whose hearts remain unhumbled under humbling providences. For what God intends when He afflicts us is to turn u…
13th Century
Catholic
1. The Lord sent a word into Jacob. Here, he describes the sequence of punishment according to its various types.
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