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Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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Verse 1. Israel. They are chiefly addressed, (Chal. Saint Jerome Calmet.) or what follows to verse 15, regards all. Worthington.—Judgment. Hebrew “a trial.”—Mercy. The want of humanity and of practical knowledge is urged. Calmet.—The knowledge of God includes the observance of the commandments. 1 John 2:4. Worthington.—This science alone is requisite. Jeremiah 9:3. Isaiah 5:13. Blind leaders prove their own and other’s ruin.
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