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Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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God's Unchanging Justice
Commentators explain that God's judgment is not an arbitrary reaction but a necessary expression of His righteous character. For God to ignore such pervasive deceit and wickedness would be for Him to deny His own nature as the just judge of the world. His 'vengeance' is the outworking of His perfect holiness against sin.
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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
Shall I not visit ...? —The previous use of the same warning in Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 5:29 gives these words …
Baptist
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (Jeremiah 9:9)…
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16th Century
Protestant
We have already encountered this verse; it will therefore be enough to briefly refer to what it contains. God shows here, that unless he denied him…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord The Targum adds,
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
1. Here, the author speaks of the wretched condition of the people regarding their punishment.
He first speaks about the sentence, an…
