Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... Because of this deceit and hypocrisy, and lying:
behold, I will melt them, and try them: as the refiner does his gold and silver, by putting them into the…
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jer 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, without…
The prophet, being commissioned both to foretel the destruction coming upon Judah and Jerusalem and to point out the sin for which that destruction was brought upon them, here, as elsewhere, speaks of…
Cambridge Bible
melt the same Hebrew word as "refining" in Jer 6:29, where see note, and cp. Zec 13:9.
how else should or, how(terribly) will.
because of the daughter LXX probably rightly has because of the evil of…
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