Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
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Gill's Exposition
Judgment also will I lay to the line,.... A metaphor taken from builders, who in building use the line and plummet to carry on their work even and regular, retaining such stones as agree thereunto,…
Barnes' Notes
Therefore thus saith the Lord - God. This verse is introductory to the solemn threatening which follows. Its design seems to be this. The prophet was about to utter an awful threatening of the…
The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and…
Cambridge Bible
There is but one true ground of confidence Jehovah's revealed purpose with regard to Zion.
Behold, I lay Strictly: Behold, I am he that hath laid (for the Hebr. construction cf. ch. Isa 29:14; Isa…
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