Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets The priests also, and all ecclesiastical guides, are included. Behold, I will feed them with wormwood Will afflict them with most bitter calamities. For from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth Or, hypocrisy, which seems rather to be the meaning of חנפה, the word here used. Certain it is, that this was a vice they were generally addicted to. These false prophets affected to be looked upon as pious, while they indulged themselves in various acts of wickedness; and as this could not be totally concealed, the people took example from them, and indulged themselves in vice, while they put on the garb of piety. The Jewish nation continued much in this habit even to the times of Christ, as is sufficiently evident from what is said of the Pharisees in the New Testament.