Verse 3
"Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near."
"Put far away the evil day ..." This does not mean, of course, that they actually moved the evil day. They did not really put it off. The passage means "to regard as far off."[13] They were indifferent to the eventual consequences of their wickedness and regarded their sure and certain punishment as a thing that could be relegated to the remote future, and as something for which they needed not to have any apprehension at all.
"And cause the seat of violence to come near ..." A society that tolerates violence and corruption is hastening the day when violence and corruption will be enthroned among them. As Motyer commented:
"They were hastening the day when lawlessness would reign, "the reign of terror." So it must have been in the final years of the kingdom of Israel when, after Jeroboam II, only one king passed the throne on to his son, and the rest ended their reigns by assassination."[14]
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