FALSE Covenant Covenants Empty Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Plowed Poisonous Poison-plant Promises Punishment Speak Spoken Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Thus Utter Vain Weeds Worthless
10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making {e} a covenant: thus {f} judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
(e) In promising to be faithful toward God.
(f) In this way their integrity and fidelity which they pretended, was nothing but bitterness and grief.
10:4 Words - Vain words. Swearing falsely - By perjury deceiving those they treated with. A covenant - With the Assyrian king. Judgment - Divine vengeance. As hemlock - A proverbial speech, expressing the greatness of this evil.
10:1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false. Even the proceeding of justice was as poisonous hemlock. Alas, how empty a vine is the visible church even at this day! But all earthly prosperity is but a collection of bubbles, soon destroyed like foam upon the water. Sinners will in vain seek shelter from that Judge, whom they now despise as a Saviour.
Covenant Covenants Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Poisonous Promises Punishment Speak Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Utter Weeds Words Worthless
Covenant Covenants Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Poisonous Promises Punishment Speak Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Utter Weeds Words Worthless
