Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
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Gill's Exposition
And be thou instructed, O Jerusalem,.... Or "corrected" (s); receive discipline or instructions by chastisements and corrections, return by repentance, that the evils threatened may not come: this…
Barnes' Notes
Be thou instructed - Be thou chastised: learn the lesson which chastisement is intended to teach thee. Lest my soul - Lest I Myself - not “depart from thee,” God does not willingly leave His people,…
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
instructed rather, disciplined, corrected. Cp. Jer 2:30; Jer 5:3.
lest my soul be alienated The verb in the original is much stronger, be wrenched. In Gen 32:25 (Heb. 26) the same verb is rendered…
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