26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-31)Here is, I. A general idea given of the land of Israel, how well it deserved the judgments coming to destroy it and how much it needed these judgments to refine it. Let the prophet tell her plainly, “ Thou art the land that is not cleansed , not refined as metal is, and therefore needest to be again put into the furnace. Means and methods of reformation have been ineffectual; thou art not rained u…
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