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Jeremiah 2:28

A question of bitter irony. Things are made for some use. Now is the time for thy deities to Proverbs themselves real by being useful. When every city has its special deity, surely among so many there might be found one able to help his worshippers.

O Judah - Hereto the argument had been addressed to Israel: suddenly the prophet charges Judah with the habitual practice of idolatry, and points to the conclusion, that as Jerusalem has been guilty of Samaria' s sin, it must suffer Samaria' s punishment.

 

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