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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. God’s ancient people had so completely turned away from him, and wandered so far from him, that they had practiced all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents,.... Either of the innocent infants of poor persons, who were sacrificed to Moloch; or of the poor prophets of the Lord, whom they slew, because they faithfully reproved them for their sins; and the blood of those being found in their skirts is expressive of the publicness...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yet thou sayest, because I am innocent,.... Or, "that I am innocent"; though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, acting like the adulterous woman, Proverbs 30:20 to whom the Jews are all along compared in this chapter; which shows the hardness of their hearts, and their impudence in sinning: surely his anger shall turn from me; the anger...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. The most guilty people are often the most self-righteous. The sinful nation, which ought to have pleaded guilty, here says, “Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me.” Jer_2:35. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. That...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?.... Or, "by changing thy way" (t); sometimes going one way, and sometimes another; sometimes to Egypt, and then to Assyria; seeking sometimes to the one for help, and sometimes to the other; at one time serving the gods of the one, in order to curry favour with them, and then the gods of the other,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. First they trusted to Assyria to save them; and when that broken reed failed them, then they trusted to Egypt; and in a similar fashion, we go from one false hope to another, — from one carnal confidence to another, gadding about...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him,.... From the Egyptian, without any help, and with shame; or, "from this" (u); that is, from this place, from Jerusalem, and from the land of Judea, into captivity; notwithstanding all the promised and expected help from Egypt, 2 Kings 24:7: and thine hands upon thine head; plucking and dishevelling the hair, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: Thou shalt go forth as a captive, with thine hands bound above thy head; or, like one in great pain or sorrow, thou shalt hold thine hands to thy head. Jer_2:37. For the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. May God, in his mercy, save all of us...