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Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear,)
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God's Passionate Pursuit
The phrase "rising up early and sending them" is a powerful metaphor. Commentators explain it signifies God's own intense, personal, and earnest desire for His people to repent. It reveals a God who passionately pursues His people with great care and concern, not one who is distant or indifferent.
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Jeremiah
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16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah now remonstrates with the Jews, because they had not only treacherously departed from the true worship of God and despised the whole teach…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, &c.] Not only him, but many others, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, …
Presbyterian
The call to turn from evil ways to the worship and service of God, and for sinners to trust in Christ and partake of his salvation, concerns all pe…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he gives the universal threat against the princes of all the nations, and it is divided into two parts.
In the first part, he speaks o…
