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Or, “O generation” that you are! An exclamation of indignation at their hardened resistance to God.
A land of darkness - This word is…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
O generation, see. —The pronoun occupies a different position in the Hebrew: “O generation, you, I mean, see.” The prophe…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness?
why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to you?
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
The prophet assumes the character, no doubt, of one in astonishment, to make the sin of the people more detestable, for he speaks as one astonished…
John Gill
JohnGill
O generation, see you the word of the Lord
Take notice of it, consider it; or, hear it, as the Septuagint, Syriac, a…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
Here, the prophet shows their hard-heartedness from the fact that they are not moved by kindness.
- He presents the kindnesses that pert…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes