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Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.
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You Reap What You Sow
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is a stark reminder of personal responsibility. The impending disaster is not random chance or unfairness from God; it is the direct and earned consequence of Judah's own "way and doings." As John Calvin notes, they cannot blame God or fortune, for they are the authors of their own calamities.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your wickedness - This siege is your wickedness, that is, in its results; or better, this is your wretchedness, this army and your approachi…
19th Century
Anglican
This is your wickedness. —Better, this is your evil. She was reaping the fruit of her own doing, and this gave her sorrow…
Baptist
How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from Mount Ephraim. Make mention to…
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16th Century
Protestant
As I have just said, the Prophet confirms what he had declared—that the Jews would not have to suffer what is commonly called an adverse fortune, b…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you , &c.] The way in which they walked, which was an evil …
The fierce conqueror of the neighboring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by fal…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he predicts the siege:
The messenger of the siege. From Dan, whose land the Chaldeans would encounter first …
