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Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
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Sin's High Price
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is a stark declaration of cause and effect. God announces that Judah's wealth and treasures will be plundered as a direct consequence of their sins. The judgment is not random but a just response to their unfaithfulness, which had spread 'in all thy borders.'
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Jeremiah is personally addressed in the verse, because he stood before God as the intercessor, representing the people.
19th Century
Anglican
Thy substance and thy treasures ... —Assuming the words stand in their right place, we must look on them as addressed to …
16th Century
Protestant
But, there is a difference among interpreters as to the word גבול gebul. I indeed allow that it means a border; but Jeremiah, as I think, …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price Not the prop…
Jeremiah met with much contempt and reproach, when they should have blessed him and thanked God for him. It is a great and sufficient support to th…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet prays for himself, as if despairing of the people.
He gives his own lament and then describes the disc…
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