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Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
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Rejecting God's Rest
God's command to "withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst" is an invitation to find rest and security in Him. Commentators explain that Israel, instead, chose to exhaust themselves by chasing after foreign idols and alliances, a path that left them spiritually barefoot and thirsty. This illustrates the folly of rejecting God's easy yoke for the wearying and fruitless labor of sin.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
God the true husband exhorts Israel not to run barefoot, and with parched throat, like a shameless adulteress, after strangers.
There…
19th Century
Anglican
Withhold your foot. — From the brute types of passion, the prophet passes to the human. Here he has Hosea as giving a pro…
Baptist
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, tha…
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16th Century
Protestant
The words of the Prophet, as they are concise, may appear at first view obscure; but his meaning is simply this: that the insane people could by no…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Withhold your foot from being unshod That it may not be unshod, be naked and bare. The sense is, either, as some, do not take long …
Despite all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. People are often as much under the power of their un…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he removes their excuses.
They might bring up the neglect of the farmer. Against this, he says, I have planted…
