Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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Gill's Exposition
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands,.... The yoke of the people, as the Targum expresses it, that was upon their necks, and the bands in which they were bound by them;…
Barnes' Notes
Correct thee - Or, “chastise thee.” Alliances with foreign powers shall bring trouble and not safety.
The prophet, further to evince the folly of their forsaking God, shows them what mischiefs they had already brought upon themselves by so doing; it had already cost them dear, for to this were owing…
Cambridge Bible
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee Thy misdeeds shall bring their own punishment with them. Correctin the sense (now growing obsolete) of chastise. Cp. Jer 10:24; Jer 30:11; Jer 46:28. So in Pro…
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