Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Interpretation
God's answer discovers the purposes of his wrath against that generation of the Jews, and the purposes of his grace concerning future generations. It is sin, and nothing else, that ruins them.
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This thought runs through Jeremiah 32:31-35.
Glossary
- Jerusalem Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Jerusalem.