Monday, May 3, 2021

Jeremiah 23 SERIES: Vs.9-12

  Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry
 
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; 
all my bones shake
I am like a drunken man
and like a man whom wine hath overcome, 
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.