Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets;
all my bones
shake;
because of the LORD, and because of the words of His holiness. For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land
mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their
course is evil, and their force is not right.
For both prophet and priest are profane;
yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Vs.9-12
All my bones shake - He was terrified even by his own message, and shocked at the profanity of the false prophets.
My heart within me is broken;
I am like a drunken man - His head was in confusion with wonder and
astonishment
Slippery ways are bad enough in the light, but “their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness.”
Because
of the prophets and their sin, the false doctrine they preached, the wicked
lives they lived; especially it filled him with horror to hear them making use
of God's name and pretending to have their instruction from him.
Never was the
Lord so abused, and the words of His holiness, as by these men.
The
land is full of adulterers; - it is full of spiritual
whoredom.
--They go a whoring from God, and, having cast off the fear of him, no
marvel that they abandon themselves to all manner of lewdness; and, having
dishonored themselves and their own bodies, they dishonor God and his name.
They are both profane;
---the priests profane the
ordinances of God they pretend to administer;
---the prophets profane the word of
God they pretend to deliver;
their converse and all their conversation are
profane, and then it is not strange that the people are so debauched.
God searches His house, and what wickedness is there He
will find it out; and the nearer it is to Him the more offensive it is.