COMMENTARY:
: 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! Even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save! (7768 “cry” [shava] means shout, to ask for aid, to implore help, or plead for relief.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departs not (2964 “prey” [tereph] means food, an animal hunted or caught for food, nourishment, leaf, or what is consumable.)
DEVOTION: Here we have a nation that took advantage of other nations. The people who lived in … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 For the LORD has turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. (1238 “emptiers” [baqaq] means make void, destroyer, a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to, or to pilage the inhabitants.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. (5352 “acquit” [naqah] means to leave unpunished, to hold innocent, to pardon, declare exempt … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. (3477 “upright” [yashar] means straight, righteous, just, correct, pleasing, fitting, proper, level, or smooth.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 3 O my people, what have I done unto you? and wherein have I wearied you? Testify against me. (6030 “testify” [anah] means answer, respond, speak, declare, respond to a question, or pay attention.
DEVOTION: One way to teach people is through asking questions. We find in the New Testament that Christ usually answered … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (4910 “ruler” [mashel] means have dominion, reign, power, govern, or control.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it. (5102 “flow” [nahar] means stream, to move or progress freely as … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? (4941 “judgment” [mishpat] means know right from wrong, decision, dispute, the quality of being free from favoritism, free of self-interest, not bias, not deceptive, or … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. (2803 “devise” [chashab] means to weave, imagine, cunning, to plan secretly, to invent, consider, think, reckon, or calculate.)
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