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He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
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Verse 20. From them. The Jews themselves acknowledged, in the siege of Jerusalem, that God had abandoned and given up to destruction his once beloved people. Joseph. Bel. vii. 8. Calmet.—Consider, or look on their utter ruin with indifference, or rather with complacency. Bible.—I will laugh at your destruction. Proverbs 1:16. Calmet.—God loves without seeing any preceding merit in his creatures, but he never abandons them till they have first proved unfaithful. Worthington.
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