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NASB | Jeremiah 12:3 But You know me, O LORD; You see me; And You examine my heart's attitude toward You. Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter And set them apart for a day of carnage! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 12:3 But You, O LORD, know me [and understand my devotion to You]; You see me; And You examine the attitude of my heart toward You. Drag out the faithless like sheep for the slaughter [O LORD] And set them apart for the day of slaughter. |
Subject: Temporal Mercies to the Lost |
Bible Note: "Since all the promises of God are made in Christ, it clearly follows that none of them are available to any who are out of Christ, for to be out of Him is to be out of the favour of God. God cannot look on such a person but as an object of His wrath, as fuel for His vengeance: there is no hope for any man until he be in Christ. But it may be asked, Does not God bestow any good things on them who are out of Christ, sending His rain upon the unjust, and filling the bellies of the wicked with good things (Psalm 17:14)? Yes, He does indeed. Then are not those temporal mercies blessings? Certainly not: far from it. As He says in Malachi 2:2, 'I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart' (cf. Deuteronomy 28:15-20). Unto the wicked, the temporal mercies of God are like food given to bullocks -- it does but 'prepare them for the day of slaughter' (Jeremiah 12:3, and cf. James 5:5)." --R. Hawker (1810) |
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