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I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
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God Acts as a Just Judge
Commentators explain that God is not acting arbitrarily. The phrase "I will utter my judgments" portrays God as a righteous judge ascending His tribunal. This sentence comes after a long period of divine patience, making the coming punishment a just and necessary response to Judah's persistent and unrepentant wickedness.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In accordance with the custom of law courts, the crimes of the guilty city are mentioned in the sentence. The charges brought against her are three…
19th Century
Anglican
I will utter my judgments against them. —Here, again, we find a literal correspondence in the words of Jeremiah 39:5, “he gave…
Baptist
God tells Jeremiah that he was about to destroy Jerusalem because of the people's sin. He was not merely to foretell their doom, but he was also to…
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16th Century
Protestant
God now assigns the reason why he had resolved to deal so severely with the Jews. It was necessary to teach them two things: first, that the Chalde…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will utter my judgments against them Not against the kingdoms of the north, but against the people of the Jews. The…
God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond tree, which blooms earlier in the spring than any o…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the author describes the destruction of Jerusalem itself.
He speaks of the incitement to see, what do you see?, as menti…
