4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
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Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)One would wonder that Jerusalem, the holy city, where God was known, and his name was great, should be the city of which this black character is here given, that a place which enjoyed such abundance of the means of grace should become so very corrupt and vicious, and that God should permit it to be so; yet so it is, to show that the law made nothing perfect ; but if this be the true character of J…
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