15And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. …
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, …
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-17)God, having shown the misery of this people in their being justly abandoned by the good Shepherd, here shows their further misery in being shamefully abused by a foolish shepherd. The prophet is himself to personate and represent this pretended shepherd (Zech. 11:15): Take unto thee the instruments or accoutrements of a foolish shepherd , that are no way fit for the business, such a shepherd’s coa…
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