18For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But if they had stood in my counsel, and 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.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? …
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
Commentary
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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