As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
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Gill's Exposition
As a fountain casteth out her waters,.... In great abundance, and continually:
so she casteth out her wickedness; this metaphor expresses the multitude of her sins, the frequent and constant…
Barnes' Notes
As a fountain casteth out - Better, As a cistern “cooleth.” Before me ... - Before My face continually there is disease and wounding: Disease as the result of poverty and want: wounding, or, the…
Here is I. Judgment threatened against Judah and Jerusalem. The city and the country were at this time secure and under no apprehension of danger; they saw no cloud gathering, but every thing looked…
Cambridge Bible
The cherished wickedness of the people is illustrated by a metaphor.
a well casteth forth MT. has two readings, welland fountain. In the former water is stored to keep it fresh, in the latter it…
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