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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone,.... The word here used is translated a "diamond" in Jeremiah 17:1 and it is said to be harder than a flint, Ezekiel 3:9. The Jewish writers say (g) it is a worm like a barley corn, so strong as to cut the hardest stones in pieces; Moses (they say) used it in hewing the stones for the two tables of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried,.... The Lord by the former prophets called them to repentance and obedience: and they would not hear; his words, nor obey his voice: so they cried: when they were besieged in Jerusalem, and were carried captive into Babylon: and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts; so as to deliver them out...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear saith the LORD of hosts: The punishment of sin seems to be according to the sin itself. If men will not hear God, neither will God hear them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I scattered them with a whirlwind,.... Denoting the fierceness of his wrath, and the strength of his fury, seen in their dispersion: among all the nations whom they knew not; such as the Babylonians, Medes, and Persians, people before unknown to the Jews: thus the land was desolate after them; that is, the land of Judea was destitute of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. Now, in the next chapter, the prophet goes on to speak not so much of the people’s sin as of God’s resolve to have mercy upon them. He speaks with...