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Ask a Questionleaders, &c.--(See Isa 3:12, Margin, and see on Isa 3:12.)
The language of a proverb, meaning that forbidden delights are sweet and pleasant, as fruits of risk and danger.
Let not thine hands be slack--(Heb 12:12). Do not faint in the work of the Lord.
mercy and truth--God's faithfulness to His promises is often expressed by these terms (Ps 25:10; 57:3). As attributes of men, they express integrity in a wide sense (Pr 16:6; 20:28). ...
(Compare Ps 107:3; Isa 11:12).
A solemn warning against whoredom and drunkenness (Ho 4:11). give me--This is the address of that divine wisdom so often presented (Pr 8:1; 9:3, &c.). heart--confidence. observe--keep. my ways...
(See on Mt 3:1-12; Mr 6:17, &c.).
all this--as to the dealings of Providence (Job 12:3).
The words--literally, "saying of" (Ps 12:5). seven times--thoroughly (Da 3:19).
pastors--the Babylonian leaders (compare Jer 12:12; Jer 6:3). my vineyard--(Isa 5:1, 5). trodden my portion--(Isa 63:18).
favour--grace, amiability (Pr 22:11; Ps 45:2); united with this, a good understanding--(Compare Margin), a discrimination, which secures success. in the sight...man--such as God and man approve.
loving...roe--other figures for a wife from the well-known beauty of these animals. breasts--(Compare So 1:13; Eze 23:3, 8). ravished--literally, "intoxicated," that is, fully satisfied.
Beauty is abused by those who have not discretion or modesty with it. This is true of all bodily endowments.
Jewels were often suspended from the nose (Ge 24:47; Isa 3:21). Thus adorned, a hog...
If men make God's glory their end, and his will their rule, he will direct their steps by his Spirit and grace. 10. Let kings and judges of the earth be just, and rule in the fear of God.
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Justice should crush the wicked, and separate them from the virtuous.
(Compare Pr 20:8). bringeth...over them--The wheel was used for threshing grain. The figure denotes severity (compare Am...
Let us not suffer Christ's words to depart from us, but keep sound wisdom and discretion; then shall we walk safely in his ways. The natural life, and all that belongs to it, shall be under the...
father's son--emphatic, a son specially regarded, and so called tender, as an object of special care (compare 1Ch 22:7; 29:1); an idea further expressed by only beloved--or, "as an only son" (Ge...