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Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
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Deceit Destroys Faith
Commentators explain that the people's refusal to know God was a direct result of their deceitful lives. A culture of dishonesty towards one another made a genuine relationship with the God of truth impossible. As one scholar notes, this reflects the New Testament principle that you cannot love God whom you haven't seen if you don't love the brother you have seen.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
19th Century
Anglican
Your habitation ... —The words may be an individualized, and therefore more emphatic, reproduction of the general warning of Jerem…
Baptist
Putting forth all their critical ingenuity to get rid of God, His Word, inspiration, and the divine sacrifice, doing all they could so that they mi…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here introduces God as the speaker, so that the Jews might know that they were not dealing with a mortal man. For they might, according…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit In the midst of a people of deceit, as Kimchi and Ben Molech. These are th…
Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…
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13th Century
Catholic
First, he speaks of his own compassion regarding …
