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For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
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The Folly of Forgetting God
Commentators emphasize the sheer irrationality of Israel's choice. They compare it to abandoning a pure, life-giving spring right beside them to search for dirty puddles. Forgetting God and turning to idols, which the verse calls "vanity," is a foolish exchange of a certain, refreshing source of life for something empty, harmful, and false.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Because - “For.” Jeremiah returns to, and continues the words of, (Jeremiah 18:13).
Vanity - A word meaning “false…
19th Century
Anglican
Vanity. —The word is not that commonly so translated (Jeremiah 10:8; Ecclesiastes 1:2, et al., q. 5
16th Century
Protestant
As I have just said, God here highlights the sin of the people by a twofold comparison. For when one can draw water in his own field and find a spr…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Because my people has forgotten me Or, "that they have forgotten me" F26 ; this is the horrible thing the…
Sinners call it liberty to live without restraint, but for a person to be a slave to their lusts is the very worst slavery. They abandoned God for …
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he speaks of the despair of those who rejected his preaching.
First, he mentions their desperation: we have no…
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