Isaiah 30:10

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Which say to the seers, See not - (; ; ).

See not - as you now do, foretelling misfortune. Prophecy not ... right things. Not that they avowedly requested this, but their conduct virtually expressed it. No man, professedly, wishes to be deceived; but many seek a kind of teaching which is deceit; and which, if they would examine, they might know to be such (). The Jews desired success to be foretold as the issue of their league with Egypt, though ill had been announced by God's prophet as the result: this constituted the "deceits."