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Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts.
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God's Discipline is Redemptive
Commentators unanimously explain that God's 'smiting' or affliction is not meant to simply destroy but to lovingly correct. As Albert Barnes notes, the very design of the chastisement was to turn the people back to God. When we face hardship, we should first ask if God is using it to call us back to Himself.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the people ... - This is a reason why his anger would not cease, and it is, at the same time, the suggestion of a new crime for which th…
19th Century
Anglican
For the people turneth not ... —What follows was the word that was meant for all Israel. They had not “turned” to the Lord; there …
16th Century
Protestant
But the people have not turned. The conjunction ו (vau) is translated by some interpreters as for, as if the Prophet wer…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the people turneth not to him that smiteth them Who was the Lord of hosts, as it is explained in the next clause…
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.
Firs…
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