Woe be to (a) the shepherds that destroy and scatter the (b) sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. (a) Meaning the prince's governors and false prophets as in (Ezekiel 34:2). (b) For which I have special care, and have prepared good pastures for them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds that (c) feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. (c) Whose charge is to feed the flock but they eat the fruit... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will gather the (d) remnant of my flock from all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. (d) Thus the prophets always used to mix the promises with the threatenings lest the godly should be too much beaten down and... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous (e) Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice upon the earth. (e) This prophecy is of the restitution of the Church in the time of Jesus Christ, who is the true branch, read (Isaia... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The (f) LORD liveth, who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; (f) Read (Jeremiah 16:14).... [ Continue Reading ]
My heart within me is broken because of the (g) prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. (g) Meaning, the false prophets who deceive the people: in which appears his great love towar... [ Continue Reading ]
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their (h) course is evil, and their force [is] not right. (h) They run headlong to wickedness and seek vain help.... [ Continue Reading ]
For both prophet and priest are profane; even, in my (i) house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. (i) My temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.... [ Continue Reading ]
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem (k) an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them (l) to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah. (k) They who should ha... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with (m) wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (m) Read (Jeremiah 8:14).... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own (n) heart, [and] not from the mouth of the LORD. (n) Which they have invented of their own brain.... [ Continue Reading ]
They say still to them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye (o) shall have peace; and they say to every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. (o) Read (Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 8:11).... [ Continue Reading ]
For (p) who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]? (p) Thus they derided Jeremiah as though the word of God was not revealed to him, so also spoke Zedekiah to Micaiah, (1 Kings 22:24).... [ Continue Reading ]
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he shall have executed, and till he shall have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye (q) shall consider it perfectly. (q) Both that God has sent me, and that my words will be true.... [ Continue Reading ]
But if they had stood in my counsel, and (r) had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. (r) He shows the difference between the true prophets and the false, between the hireling and the true minister.... [ Continue Reading ]
[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God (s) afar off? (s) Do I not see your falsehood, however you cloak it, and wherever you commit it?... [ Continue Reading ]
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I (t) have dreamed, I have dreamed. (t) I have a prophecy revealed to me as in (Numbers 12:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
Who think to cause (u) my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. (u) He shows that Satan raises up false prophets to bring the people from God.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet that hath a dream, let him (x) tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. (y) What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. (x) Let the false prophet declare that it is his own fantasy, and not slander my word as though it were a cloak to cover his lie... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that (z) steal my words every one from his neighbour. (z) Who set forth in my Name that which I have not commanded.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, (a) He saith. (a) That is, the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the (b) burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. (b) The prophets called their threatenings God's burden, which the sinners were not able to sustain, th... [ Continue Reading ]
And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The (c) burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. (c) Because this word was brought to contempt and derision, he will teach them another manner of speech, and will cause this word burden to cease and teac... [ Continue Reading ]
And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's (d) word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. (d) The thing which they mock and contemn will come on them.... [ Continue Reading ]