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Jeremiah 7:28

The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:28

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

But thou shalt say; rather, thou shalt therefore say. A nation; rather, the nation. "What one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself?"

(). And yet "this is the nation that have not hearkened," etc. Truth; rather, good faith (as ). Is cut off from their mouth; i.e. their oaths to Jehovah are false oaths ().

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