13For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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.
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line. I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the haste which the Chaldea army made to the war ( Jer. 6:4 , 5 ); now here we have the havoc made by the war. How lamentable are the desolations here described! The enemy shall so long quarter among them, an…
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