Verses 9-10
He asked if they had forgotten the wickedness of all the people in Judah: their ancestors, the kings and their wives, and themselves and their wives. They had failed to feel contrite or to repent even to the present day. [Note: The same Hebrew word translated "contrite" here, dukke’u, has been rendered "bruised" in Isaiah 53:5.] They had not feared Yahweh or obeyed His covenant. They were arrogant, stubborn, and hard-hearted.
"It was Hegel, in the introduction to his Philosophy of History (1807), who rightly said: ’What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.’ So with these Jews in Egypt!" [Note: Feinberg, "Jeremiah," pp. 640-41.]
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