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Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.
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The Emptiness of False Worship
Commentators agree that the "hills" and "mountains" refer to the high places where Israel engaged in idolatrous worship. The "tumult" or "revelry" of these pagan rituals was ultimately "in vain." This confession acknowledges that all alternatives to God, whether ancient idols or modern false confidences, are empty and lead only to shame and loss, not salvation.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Rather, surely in vain from the hills is the revelry of the mountains. The penitents contrast in it the uselessness of idol-worship with t…
19th Century
Anglican
Truly in vain ... —The italics indicate the difficulty of the verse and represent an attempt to resolve it. According to the possi…
Baptist
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God. Truly in vain is sal…
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16th Century
Protestant
God here exhorts the Israelites to repent, so that by their example He might move the Jews. The benefit of what is taught here might indeed have re…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains
Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. And forgetting the Lord our God is at the bottom of all sin. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. The prom…
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13th Century
Catholic
