I spake unto thee in thy prosperity,.... Or "prosperities", or "tranquillities" ; when in their greatest affluence, in the height of it; this he did, when he sent to them his servants the prophets, as the Targum, and by them exhorted, reproved, and advised them:[but] thou saidst, I will not hear; this was the language of their hearts and actions, though not of their mouths:this [hath been] thy manner from thy youth; from the time they came out of Egypt, and first became a church and body politic; while they were in the wilderness; or when first settled in the land of Canaan: this was the infancy of their state; and from that time it was their manner and custom to reject the word of the Lord, and turn a deaf ear to it:that thou obeyest not my voice; in his law, and by his prophets.
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Jeremiah 22:21
Jeremiah 22:21
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