Isaiah 43:24

Isaiah 43:24. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money,

No calamus or incense that should sweeten the temple of God,-

Isaiah 43:24. Neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but

Oh, this "but-but"!

Isaiah 43:24. Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins,

You have made a servant of your Master,-treated your Redeemer as if he were your slave!

Isaiah 43:24. Thou host wearied me with thine iniquities.

Oh, what a terrible verse this is about a people whom God had formed for himself, and who shall yet show forth his praise! Alas! this is how they sometimes are still,-indifferent, ungrateful, presenting him no tokens of love; but, on the contrary, disobedient, grieving him, and vexing his Holy Spirit. What will he do with them now? "Cut them off, and reject them," says one. Yes, that is how men would do; but that is not what God will do.

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