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Don`t you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
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Despair from Within
Scholars overwhelmingly agree that the despairing voices in this verse were not foreign enemies but the Israelites themselves. Faced with exile, they concluded that God had permanently rejected them. This highlights how internal hopelessness, not just external pressure, can be a profound spiritual battle for God's people.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Do you not consider - literally, Have you not seen, i. e., noticed?
This people - i. e., the Jews.
Thus ... - Or…
19th Century
Anglican
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken... — The words that follow have been regarded by many commentators as t…
Baptist
This will be literally fulfilled in the latter days, I do not doubt, but it is even now being fulfilled to the spiritual seed of Jacob and David. T…
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16th Century
Protestant
He now gives a reason why he had spoken so extensively about the deliverance of the people and their perpetual preservation: it was because the ble…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Do you not consider what this people have spoken The words are directed to the prophet by an interrogation, if he had not…
To crown the blessings God has in store, here is a promise of the Messiah. He imparts righteousness to his church, for he is made by God to be righ…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, he turns back the derision of the enemy.
First, the insult is given: two families, namely, the royal family …
