...rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their kaekt." And God says by the mouth of David, " O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had...should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my head against their adversaries." And it was a proverb in Israel, " He that being often reproved, hardeneth...

...none of me : BO I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and they walked in their own counsels. O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had...my ways : I should soon have subdued their enemies, &c. — Ps.lxxxi. 8. 11-14. 16. 2Kingsxxi. 8,9. Because they rebelled against the words of God, and...

...none of me : ao I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and they walked in their own counsels. O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had...my ways : I should soon have subdued their enemies, &c. — Ps.lxxxi. 8. 11-14. 16. 2 Kings xxi. 8,9. Because they rebelled against the words of God, and...

...portions of scripture as merely hypothetical sentences, excluding any expression of wish, thus: If my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways, I should, 8cc. They read also the place in Hosea, as excluding affectionate reluctance, and the words of our...

...Governour, •we hear him seying, with nothing but motives to induce sinners to compliance with his request, "Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my •ways " When he speaks as moral Governour, he has no reference to his power as a Sovereign — as when he...

...Israel when he truly helps them. He has said, "Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and fsreal had walked in my ways'. I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned mine band against their adversaries. The haters of the Lord, should hare submitted themselves unto...

...wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end !" Psal. Ixxxi. 13 ; " O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways !" Isai. xlviii. 18; "O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! Then had thy peace been as a...

...and love them that hate the LORD? therefore it wrath upon thee from before the LORD, 2 Chron. zix. 2. The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him : but their time should have endured for ever, Peal. Izxzi. la. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul : all they that hate...

...— 15. c But my people would not hearken to my voice ; and Israel would none of me, Peal. Ixxxi. 11. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways, 13. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear ; and your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting...

...of me. 12 So I gave, them up unto then- OWB hearts' lust : and they walked in their own counsel*. 13 in the city where they had so done : liis is also vanity. 11 Because sent ! 14 I should soon have tubdwd their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The...