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Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn’t done it?
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Verse 6. Afraid. Yet you can hear these terrible truths without consternation! Will you therefore escape? Calmet.—Evil. He speaks of the evil of sin, of which God is not the author. Challoner.—All evil of punishment is sent by God, either to reclaim sinners or to be the beginning of sorrows, if they die impenitent. Worthington.—You know that He rewards or punishes. If, therefore, what I foretell come to pass, do not blame me.
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