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But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;
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Defiance, Not a Mistake
Commentators stress that God's anger was not over a simple slip of the tongue. God had explicitly commanded the people not to use the phrase "the burden of the Lord." Their persistence, as John Calvin notes, stemmed from "determined wickedness" and a desire to mock God's word. This was a deliberate act of rebellion, not an accident.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Since—or, but if you say.
19th Century
Anglican
But since you say. —Better, if you say.
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet confirms what he had said, for God might have seemed to be too indignant, having been so grievously offended at one short expressi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But since you say, the burden of the Lord Seeing, notwithstanding all prohibitions of it, and directions to the contrary,…
Those are indeed miserable who are forsaken and forgotten by God; and people's jesting at God's judgments will not thwart them. God had taken Israe…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, the prophet threatens those who mock the prophets. Just as they ridiculed Isaiah in his day, saying, “Command, command again, e…
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