Sājiālìyàshū 7:12

12 Shǐ xīn yìng rú jīn gāng shí , bù tīng lǜfǎ , hé wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá yòng líng jiè cóng qián de xiānzhī suǒ shuō de huà . gùcǐ , wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá dà fā liè nù .

Sājiālìyàshū 7:12 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 7:12

Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone
The word here used is translated a "diamond" in ( Jeremiah 17:1 ) and it is said to be harder than a flint, ( Ezekiel 3:9 ) . The Jewish writers say

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 it is a worm like a barley corn, so strong as to cut the hardest stones in pieces; Moses (they say) used it in hewing the stones for the two tables of the law, and in fitting the precious stones in the ephod; and Solomon in cutting the stones for the building of the temple; and is so hard that it cannot be broken by iron: and as hard is naturally the heart of man, and which becomes more so by sinning, and obstinate persisting in it, that nothing can remove the hardness of it but the powerful and efficacious grace of God: as hard as the adamant is, it is to be softened by the blood of a goat, as naturalists says ^F8; so the blood of Christ sprinkled on the heart, and a sense of forgiveness of sin by it, will soften the hardest heart: lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of
hosts hath seat in his Spirit by the former prophets;
the words of reproof, admonition, caution, and exhortation, which Jeremiah and others were sent to deliver to them, under the influence of the Spirit of God: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts;
which brought the Chaldeans upon them, who carried them captive into Babylon.
F7 Misn. Sota, c. 9. sect. 12. Pirke Abot. c. 5. sect. 5. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Kimchi in 1 Reg. vi. 7. Jarchi in Isa. v. 6.
F8 Pausan. Arcadica, sive l. 8. p. 485. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 37. c. 4.

Sājiālìyàshū 7:12 In-Context

10 Bùkĕ qīyē guǎfu , gūér , jìjū de , hé pínqióng rén . shuí dōu bùkĕ xīnli móu haì dìxiōng .

11 Tāmen què bù kĕn tīng cóng , niǔ zhuǎn jiān tóu , sāi ĕr bù tīng .

12 Shǐ xīn yìng rú jīn gāng shí , bù tīng lǜfǎ , hé wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá yòng líng jiè cóng qián de xiānzhī suǒ shuō de huà . gùcǐ , wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá dà fā liè nù .

13 Wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ céng hūhuàn tāmen , tāmen bù tīng . jiānglái tāmen hū qiú wǒ , wǒ yĕ bù tīng .

14 Wǒ bì yǐ xuán fēng chuī sǎn tāmen dào sù bú rènshi de wàn guó zhōng . zhèyàng , tāmende dì jiù huāngliáng , shènzhì wú rén láiwǎng jīngguò . yīnwei tāmen shǐ mĕihǎo zhī dì huāngliáng le .