17They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-32)Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God’s true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly. The prophet had complained to God of those false prophets (Jer. 14:13), and had often foretold that they should be involved in the common ruin; but here they have woes of their own. I. He expresses the…
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