6Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. …
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Here are two sins charged upon the people of Israel, and judgments denounced against them for each, such judgments as exactly answer the sin—persecuting God’s prophets and oppressing God’s poor. I. Persecuting God’s prophets, suppressing and silencing them, is a sin that provokes God as much as anything, for it not only spits in the face of his authority over us, but spurns at the bowels of his me…
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