OT-PROPHET.filter - geneva mend:

geneva@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why should ye be (note:)What good is it to seek to mend you by punishment, seeing that the more I correct you, the more you rebel?(:note) stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole By naming the chief parts of the body, he signifies that there was no part of the whole body of the Jews free from his rods. head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send (note:)That is, the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites. In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God's intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves. Thus in respect to God's justice, it is God's work, but in respect to their own malice, it is the work of the devil.(:note) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

geneva@Isaiah:30:18 @ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be (note:)He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance.(:note) gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in (Jer_10:24, Jer_30:11). judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.

geneva@Isaiah:46:5 @ To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and (note:)The people of God setting their own calamity, and the flourishing estate of the Babylonians, would be tempted to think that their God was not so mighty as the idols of their enemies: therefore he describes the original of all the idols to make them to be abhorred by all men: showing that the most that can be spoken in their commendation, is but to prove them vile.(:note) compare me, that we may be like?

geneva@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be thou instructed, O (note:)He warns them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by repentance.(:note) Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus sayeth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Amend your waies and your woorkes, and I will let you dwell in this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:5 @ For if you amende and redresse your waies and your woorkes: if you execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour,

geneva@Jeremiah:26:13 @ Therefore nowe amende your wayes and your workes, and heare the voyce of the Lorde your God, that the Lorde may repent him of the plague, that he hath pronounced against you.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:24 @ Considerest thou not what (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans and other infidels who thought God had utterly cast off Judah and Israel or Benjamin, because he corrected them for a time for their amendment.(:note) this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:15 @ I haue sent also vnto you all my seruants the Prophetes, rising vp earely, and sending, them, saying, Returne nowe euery man from his euill way, and amende your workes, and goe not after other gods to serue them, and ye shall dwel in the lande which I haue giuen vnto you, and to your fathers, but ye would not encline your eare, nor obey mee.

geneva@Lamentations:3:33 @ For he doth not (note:)He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor.(:note) afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

geneva@Daniel:2:46 @ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and (note:)Though this humbling of the king seemed to deserve commendation, yet because he united God's honour with the Prophets, it is to be reproved, and Daniel would have erred, if he allowed it: but it is to his credit that Daniel admonished him of his fault, and did not allow it.(:note) worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

geneva@Daniel:3:26 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, [and] spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come [hither]. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, (note:)This commends their obedience to God, that they would not because of any fear depart out of this furnace until the appointed time, as Noah remained in the ark, until the Lord called him forth.(:note) came forth of the midst of the fire.