The land lying desolate will then enjoy the rest of the sabbaths and Sabbatical years refused to it by a disobedient people: see Leviticus 25:1, and cp. 2 Chronicles 36:21.

36, 37. A highly imaginative description of the inherent weakness of all wrongdoing, and of the cowardice which is the result of an evil conscience: cp. Deuteronomy 28:65; Proverbs 28:1.

40-45. God desireth not the death of the sinner, and therefore every threat of punishment for disobedience is followed by a promise of mercy, on condition of repentance and amendment: cp. the way in which the prophecies of Amos and Micah conclude.

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