Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore thus saith the Lord,.... This being the case of the people of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own ways:
ask ye among the Heathen; inquire among the nations of the world, the…
Barnes' Notes
The word rendered “frame” is a present participle, and is the same which as a noun means “a potter.” God declares that He is as free to do what He will with the Jews as the potter is free to shape as…
These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state.
I. God was now speaking concerning them…
Cambridge Bible
The direct application of the figure to the people here begins.
frame The Hebrew root is the same as that for potter.
amend your ways and your doings See on ch. Jer 7:3.
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