9Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
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The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. …
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here is, 1. Jeremiah’s preaching slighted, Jer. 37:1 , 2 . Zedekiah succeeded Coniah, or Jeconiah, and, though he saw in his predecessor the fatal consequences of contemning the word of God, yet he did not take warning, nor give any more regard to it than others had done before him. Neither he, nor his courtiers, nor the people of the land, hearkened unto the words of the Lord , though they alread…
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