Cause Confide Deceit Depend Depended Despise Ear Evil Guile Holy Hope Kicking Lean Message Oppression Perverseness Putting Reject Rejected Relied Rely Says Stay Thereon Thus Trust Wherefore Wilfulness
30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in {l} oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:
(l) Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admonitions of his prophets.
30:12 And trust - In the wealth which you have gotten by oppression, and in your perverse course of sending to Egypt for help.
30:8-18 The Jews were the only professing people God then had in the world, yet many among them were rebellious. They had the light, but they loved darkness rather. The prophets checked them in their sinful pursuits, so that they could not proceed without fear; this they took amiss. But faithful ministers will not be driven from seeking to awaken sinners. God is the Holy One of Israel, and so they shall find him. They did not like to hear of his holy commandments and his hatred of sin; they desired that they might no more be reminded of these things. But as they despised the word of God, their sins undermined their safety. Their state would be dashed in pieces like a potter's vessel. Let us return from our evil ways, and settle in the way of duty; that is the way to be saved. Would we be strengthened, it must be in quietness and in confidence, keeping peace in our own minds, and relying upon God. They think themselves wiser than God; but the project by which they thought to save themselves was their ruin. Only here and there one shall escape, as a warning to others. If men will not repent, turn to God, and seek happiness in his favour and service, their desires will but hasten their ruin. Those who make God alone their confidence, will have comfort. God ever waits to be gracious to all that come to him by faith in Christ, and happy are those who wait for him.
Cause Deceit Depend Depended Despise Ear Evil Guile Help Holy Hope Israel Kicking Lean Message Oppression Perverseness Putting Reject Rejected Relied Rely Thereon Trust Ways Wherefore Wilfulness Word
Cause Deceit Depend Depended Despise Ear Evil Guile Help Holy Hope Israel Kicking Lean Message Oppression Perverseness Putting Reject Rejected Relied Rely Thereon Trust Ways Wherefore Wilfulness Word
