Jeremiah 7:11

Robbers, Heb. breakers through. The word is taken in a large notion for all sorts of plunderers, whether in house, Ezekiel 7:22, or field, highway-men, Daniel 11:14. Do yon look upon this house as a sanctuary and refuge for robbers and murderers ? do you esteem it so, and is it so in your eyes? so the phrase is used Numbers 13:33, &c.; hereby making me an abettor of all your lewdness, Matthew 21:13; a metaphor taken from wild beasts and mischievous persons, that do both secure themselves and hide their prey in holes and caves of the earth, Psalms 10:8,9. I have seen it: q.d. As crafty as you are, you cannot hide these things from me, nor all those workings of your thoughts about them, Psalms 10:11,13,14 Eze 18:12. He checks their foolish vain confidences, whereby they deceive themselves, Isaiah 29:15. God will not be blinded by all their vain oblations.