The thing they would have him pray to God for, was direction what they should do in this desolate state into which God had brought them. What could be more pious? a practice founded upon a Divine precept, and encouraged by a promise, Proverbs 3:6, Acknowledge him in all thy ways, and he shall direct thy steps. But we may well apply here what God had said to their forefathers, Deuteronomy 5:29, when they had so freely promised their obedience to the law of God, Oh that there were such an heart in them, &c.
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Jeremiah 42:3
3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.