9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos. 4:4) when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the people that love to have it so, Jer. 5:31. And it is observable here how the punishment answer…
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