For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

As I thought - I determined.

To punish you - i:e., your fathers, with whom ye are one; the Jewish Church of all ages being regarded as an organic whole (cf. ; Matthew 23:31).

When your fathers provoked me ... and I repented not - I changed not my purpose because they changed not their mind (). With the froward, God shows Himself froward (). If the threatened punishment has been so unchangeably inflicted, much more will God surely give the promised blessing, which is so much more consonant to His nature ().

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