1 The judgments of God upon the Jews, for their perverseness;
7 for their adultery;
10 for their impiety;
15 for their worship of idols;
19 for their contempt of God;
25 and for their great corruption in the civil state;
30 and ecclesiastical.

Run ye. 2Ch 16:9 Da 12:4 Joe 2:9 Am 8:12 Zec 2:4

seek. Pr 8:3 So 3:2 Lu 14:21

if ye can. 1Ki 19:20 Pr 20:6 Eze 22:30

if there. Ge 18:23-32 Ps 12:1 14:3 53:2-4 Mic 7:1,2

that seeketh. Pr 2:4-6 23:23 Isa 59:4,14,15 2Th 2:10

2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

though. 4:2 7:9 Le 19:12 Isa 48:1 Ho 4:1,2,15 10:4 Zec 5:3,4 Mal 3:5 1Ti 1:10 2Ti 3:5 Tit 1:16

3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

are not thine. 32:19 2Ch 16:9 Ps 11:4-7 51:6 Pr 22:12 Ro 2:2

thou hast stricken. 2:30 7:28 2Ch 28:22 Pr 23:35 27:22 Isa 1:5,6 9:13 42:25 Eze 24:13 Zep 3:1,2,7

they have made. Pr 21:29 Isa 48:4 Eze 3:7-9 Zec 7:11,12 Ro 2:4,5 Heb 12:9

4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

4:22 7:8 8:7 Isa 27:11 28:9-13 Ho 4:6 Mt 11:5 Joh 7:48,49

5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

get me. Am 4:1 Mic 3:1 Mal 2:7

but these. 6:13 Ps 2:2,3 Eze 22:6-8,25-29 Mic 3:1-4,11 7:3,4 Zep 3:3-5 Mt 19:23-26 Lu 18:24 19:14 Ac 4:26,27 Jas 2:5-7

6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

a lion. 2:15 4:7 25:38 49:19 Eze 14:16-21 Da 7:4 Ho 5:14 13:7,8 Am 5:18,19 Na 2:11,12

and a wolf. Ps 104:20 Eze 22:27 Hab 1:8 Zep 3:3

evenings. or, deserts. a leopard. Da 7:6 Ho 13:7 Re 13:2

because. 2:17,19 9:12-14 14:7 16:10-12 30:24 Nu 32:14 Ezr 9:6 10:10 Isa 59:12 La 1:5 Eze 16:25 23:19

increased. Heb. strong.

7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

How shall. 3:19 Ho 11:8 Mt 23:37,38

sworn by. 12:16 Jos 23:7 Ho 4:15 Am 8:14 Zep 1:5

no gods. 2:11 De 32:21 1Co 8:4 Ga 4:8

I had fed. 2:31 De 32:15 Eze 16:49,50 Ho 13:6 Jas 5:1-5

they then. 9:2 13:27 23:10 29:22,23 Le 20:10 Ps 50:18 Eze 22:11 Ho 4:2,13,14 7:4 Mal 3:5 1Co 6:9 Heb 13:4 Jas 4:4

by troops. Nu 25:1-3

8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

every one. 13:27 Ge 39:9 Ex 20:14,17 De 5:18,21 2Sa 11:2-4 Job 31:9 Mt 5:27,28

9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

I not visit. 29 9:9 23:2 La 4:22 Ho 2:13 8:13

and shall. 44:22 Le 26:25 De 32:35,43 Isa 1:24 Eze 5:13-15 7:9 Na 1:2

10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.

ye up. 6:4-6 25:9 39:8 51:20-23 2Ki 24:2-4 2Ch 36:17 Isa 10:5-7 Isa 13:1-5 Eze 9:5-7 14:17 Mt 22:7

but make. 18 4:27 30:11 46:28 Eze 12:16 Am 9:8

they are not. 7:4-12 Ps 78:61,62 Ho 1:9

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

the house. 3:6-11,20 Isa 48:8 Ho 5:7 6:7

12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

have belied. 31 4:10 14:13,14 23:14-17 28:15-17 43:2,3 De 29:19 1Sa 6:9 2Ch 36:16 Isa 28:14,15 Eze 12:22-28 13:6 Mic 2:11 Mic 3:11 Hab 1:5,6 1Jo 5:10

neither. 23:17 28:4 Ps 10:6 1Th 5:2,3

13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

the prophets. 14:13,15 18:18 20:8-11 28:3 Job 6:26 8:2 Ho 9:7

14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

I will make. 1:9 23:29 28:15-17 2Ki 1:10-14 Ho 6:5 Zec 1:6 Re 11:5,6

15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

I will. 1:15 4:16 6:22 25:9 De 28:49 Isa 5:26 29:3,6

O house. 11 2:26 9:26 Isa 5:7 Eze 18:31 Mt 3:9,10

a mighty. Da 2:37,38 7:7 Hab 1:5-10

a nation. Isa 28:11 33:19 1Co 14:21

16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

Ps 5:9 Isa 5:28 Ro 3:13

17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

And they. Le 26:16 De 28:30,31,33 Jud 6:3,4 Isa 62:9 65:22 Hab 3:17,18

they shall impoverish. 1:15 4:7,26 La 2:2 Eze 36:4 Zep 3:6

18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

I will not make. 10 4:27 Eze 9:8 11:13 Ro 11:1-5

19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.

Wherefore. 2:35 13:22 16:10 22:8,9 De 29:24-28 1Ki 9:8,9 2Ch 7:21,22

like as. 2:13 De 4:25-28 28:47,48 La 5:8

20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

no reference

21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

O foolish. See on ver. 4 4:22 8:7 10:8 De 29:4 32:6 Ps 94:8 Isa 6:9,10 27:11 Isa 44:18 Eze 12:1 Mt 13:13-15 Joh 12:40 Ac 28:26 Ro 11:8

understanding. Heb. heart. Pr 17:16 Ho 7:11

22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Fear ye not. 10:7 De 28:58 Ps 119:120 Mt 10:28 Lu 12:5 Re 15:4

tremble. Ps 99:1 119:120 Isa 66:5 Da 6:26

placed. Job 26:10 38:10,11 Ps 33:7 93:3,4 104:9 Pr 8:29 Isa 50:2 Am 9:6 Na 1:4 Mr 4:39

23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

a revolting. 5 6:28 17:9 Ps 95:10 Isa 1:5 31:6 Ho 4:8 11:7 Heb 3:12

24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Let us now. 22 50:5 Isa 64:7 Ho 3:5 6:1

that giveth. 14:22 De 11:13,14 28:12 1Ki 17:1 Job 5:10 36:27,28 38:37 Ps 147:8 Joe 2:23 Am 4:7 Zec 10:1 Mt 5:45 Ac 14:17 Jas 5:17 Jas 5:17,18 Re 11:6

the appointed. Ge 8:22

25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

See on ch. 2:17-19 3:3 De 28:23,24 Ps 107:17,34 Isa 59:2 La 3:39 4:22

26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

For. 4:22 Isa 58:1 Eze 22:2-12

lay wait. or, pry as fowlers lie in wait. 18:22 1Sa 19:10,11 Ps 10:9,10 64:5 Pr 1:11,17,18 Hab 1:14

catch. Lu 5:10

27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

cage. or, coop. This is, without doubt, a reference to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney renders; in which fowlers place several tame birds, to decoy the others into the snare prepared for them.

Re 18:2

so are. Pr 1:11-13 Ho 12:7,8 Am 8:4-6 Mic 1:12 6:10,11 Hab 2:9-11

28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

waxen. De 32:15 Job 15:27,28 21:23,24 Ps 73:6,7,12 119:70 Am 4:1 Jas 5:4,5

overpass. 2:33 Eze 5:6,7 16:47-52 1Co 5:1

judge. 22:15-19 Job 29:12-14 Ps 72:4 82:2-4 Isa 1:23 Zec 7:10

yet. 12:1 Job 12:6 Ps 73:12

29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

See on ver. 9 9:9 Mal 3:5 Jas 5:4

30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

A wonderful and horrible thing. or, Astonishment and filthiness. 2:12 23:14 Isa 1:2 Ho 6:10

31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

prophets. 14:14 23:25,26 La 2:14 Eze 13:6 Mic 3:11 Mt 7:15-17 2Co 11:13-15 2Pe 2:1,2

bear rule. or, take into their hand my people. Isa 30:10,11 Mic 2:6,11 Joh 3:19-21 2Th 2:9-11 2Ti 4:3,4

and what. 4:30,31 22:22,23 De 32:29 Isa 10:3 20:6 33:14 La 1:9 Eze 22:14 Zep 2:2,3