Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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Gill's Exposition
Thus saith the Lord,.... In answer to the above calumny:
if my covenant be not with day and night; that is, if it should not stand; if it should be broken; or there should be no longer a succession…
Barnes' Notes
The ordinances of heaven and earth - i. e., the whole order of nature Nature is not more firmly established than God’s purposes in grace.
Three of God's covenants, that of royalty with David and his seed, that of the priesthood with Aaron and his seed, and that of Peculiarity with Abraham and his seed, seemed to be all broken and lost…
Cambridge Bible
stand] The absence of a verb in this clause to balance "have … appointed" in the next has led to Du."s emendation, adopted also by Co., to read by a very slight change in the Hebrew for "If my…
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