7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak. Because
Jehovah speaks, and they are avowedly his own people, they are bound to give
earnest heed. The Lord is about both to testify and to judge. O Israel, andI will testify against thee. It was a double evil that the chosen nation
should become so carnal, so unspiritual, so false, so heartless to their God.
God himself, who is not misled by rumor, enters as witness against his favored
nation. Alas for us when God testifies to the hypocrisy of the visible church. I am God, even thy God. He had taken them to be his special people above all
other nations, and they had in the most solemn manner avowed that he was their
God. Jehovah is thy God, O Israel; this it is that makes thee so
amenable to his searching reproofs.
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