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Jer_42:3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
Ver. 3. That the Lord thy God may show us the way.] But they had set themselves in the way to Egypt before they came with this request to the prophet: why went they else to Goruth Chimham, the road toward Egypt? {Jer_41:17} why were they also so peremptory, when they knew God’s mind to the contrary? {Jer_43:7}
And the thing that we may do.] Good words all along; but those, we say, are light cheap: Quid vero verba quaero, facta cum videam? They were as forward to speak fair, as their ancestors were in the wilderness; but oh that there were a heart in this people, saith God, to do as they have said!