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<p id="Chapter23" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 23
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<p id="Jer23_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,'1-40');">Jer 23:1-40</a>. THE WICKED RULERS TO BE SUPERSEDED BY THE KING, WHO SHOULD REIGN OVER THE AGAIN UNITED PEOPLES, ISRAEL AND JUDAH.
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<p>This forms the <i>epilogue</i> to the denunciations of the four kings, in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',21,'1-');">Jer 21:1-22:30</a>.
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<p><b>1. pastors</b>—Shallum, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',34,2);">Eze 34:2</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_2"><b>2. Ye have not...visited them...I will visit upon you</b>—just retribution. Play upon the double sense of "visit." "Visit upon," namely, in wrath (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',32,34);">Exd 32:34</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_3"><b>3, 4.</b> Restoration of Judah from Babylon foretold in language which in its fulness can only apply to the final restoration of <i>both</i> "Judah" and "<i>Israel</i>" (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,6);">Jer 23:6</a>); also "out of <i>all</i> countries," in this verse and <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,8);">Jer 23:8</a>; also, "neither shall they be lacking," that is, none shall be missing or detached from the rest: a prophecy never yet fully accomplished. It holds good also of the spiritual Israel, the elect of both Jews and Gentiles (<a onclick="return mV('Mal',3,16,17);">Mal 3:16-17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',10,28);">Jhn 10:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',17,12);">17:12</a>). As to the literal Israel also, see <a onclick="return mV('Jer',32,37);">Jer 32:37</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',54,13);">Isa 54:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',60,21);">60:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',34,'11-16');">Eze 34:11-16</a> .
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<br><br><b>shepherds...shall feed them</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,15);">Jer 3:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',34,'23-31');">Eze 34:23-31</a>). Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Maccabees were but typical of the consummating fulfilment of these prophecies under Messiah.
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<p id="Jer23_4"></a>
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<p id="Jer23_5"><b>5.</b> As Messianic prophecy extended over many years in which many political changes took place in harmony with these, it displayed its riches by a variety more effective than if it had been manifested all at once. As the moral condition of the Jews required in each instance, so Messiah was exhibited in a corresponding phase, thus becoming more and more the soul of the nation's life: so that He is represented as the antitypical Israel (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',49,3);">Isa 49:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>unto David</b>—HENGSTENBERG observes that Isaiah dwells more on His <i>prophetical</i> and <i>priestly</i> office, which had already been partly set forth (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',18,18);">Deu 18:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',110,4);">Psa 110:4</a>). Other prophets dwell more on His <i>kingly</i> office. Therefore here He is associated with "David" <i>the king:</i> but in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,1);">Isa 11:1</a> with the then poor and unknown "Jesse."
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<br><br><b>righteous Branch</b>—"the Branch of righteousness" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',33,15);">Jer 33:15</a>); "The Branch" simply (<a onclick="return mV('Zec',3,8);">Zec 3:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',6,12);">6:12</a>); "The Branch of the Lord" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',4,2);">Isa 4:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>prosper</b>—the very term applied to Messiah's undertaking (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',52,13);">Isa 52:13</a>, <i>Margin;</i> <a onclick="return mV('Isa',53,10);">Isa 53:10</a>). <i>Righteousness</i> or <i>justice</i> is the characteristic of Messiah elsewhere, too, in connection with our <i>salvation</i> or <i>justification</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',53,11);">Isa 53:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,24);">Dan 9:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',9,9);">Zec 9:9</a>). So in the New Testament He is not merely "righteous" Himself, but "righteousness to us" (<a onclick="return mV('1Cr',1,30);">1Cr 1:30</a>), so that we become "the righteousness of God in Him" (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',10,3,4);">Rom 10:3-4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Cr',5,'19-21');">2Cr 5:19-21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Phl',3,9);">Phl 3:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>execute judgment and justice in the earth</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',72,2);">Psa 72:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,7);">Isa 9:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,1,18);">32:1, 18</a>). Not merely a spiritual reign in the sense in which He is "our righteousness," but a righteous reign "in the earth" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,17,18);">Jer 3:17-18</a>). In some passages He is said to come to <i>judge,</i> in others to <i>reign.</i> In <a onclick="return mV('Mat',25,34);">Mat 25:34</a>, He is called "the King." <a onclick="return mV('Psa',9,7);">Psa 9:7</a> unites them. Compare <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,22,26,27);">Dan 7:22, 26-27</a>.
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<p id="Jer23_6"><b>6. Judah...Israel...dwell safely</b>—Compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',33,16);">Jer 33:16</a>, where "Jerusalem" is substituted for "Israel" here. Only <i>Judah,</i> and that only in part, has as yet returned. So far are the Jews from having enjoyed, as yet, the temporal blessings here foretold as the result of Messiah's reign, that their lot has been, for eighteen centuries, worse than ever before. The accomplishment must, therefore, be still future, when both Judah and Israel in their own land shall dwell safely under a Christocracy, far more privileged than even the old theocracy (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',32,37);">Jer 32:37</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',33,28);">Deu 33:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',54,'1-17');">Isa 54:1-17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',60,'1-22');">60:1-22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',65,'17-25');">65:17-25</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',14,11);">Zec 14:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>shall be called, the Lord</b>—that is, shall be (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,6);">Isa 9:6</a>) "Jehovah," God's incommunicable name. Though when applied to created things, it expresses only some peculiar <i>connection</i> they have with Jehovah (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',22,14);">Gen 22:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',17,15);">Exd 17:15</a>), yet when applied to Messiah it must express His <i>Godhead</i> manifested in justifying power <i>towards us</i> (<a onclick="return mV('1Ti',3,16);">1Ti 3:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>our</b>—marks His <i>manhood,</i> which is also implied in His being a <i>Branch raised unto David,</i> whence His human title, "Son of David" (compare <a onclick="return mV('Mat',22,'42-45');">Mat 22:42-45</a>).
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<br><br><b>Righteousness</b>—marks His <i>Godhead,</i> for God alone can justify the ungodly (compare <a onclick="return mV('Rom',4,5);">Rom 4:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,17,24,25);">Isa 45:17, 24-25</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_7"><b>7, 8.</b> Repeated from <a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,14,15);">Jer 16:14-15</a>. The prophet said the same things often, in order that his sayings might make the more impression. The same promise as in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,3,4);">Jer 23:3-4</a>. The wide dispersion of the Jews at the Babylonish captivity prefigures their present wider dispersion (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,11);">Isa 11:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Joe',3,6);">Joe 3:6</a>). Their second deliverance is to exceed far the former one from Egypt. But the deliverance from Babylon was inferior to that from Egypt in respect to the miracles performed and the numbers delivered. The final deliverance under Messiah must, therefore, be meant, of which that from Babylon was the earnest.
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<p id="Jer23_8"></a>
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<p id="Jer23_9"><b>9. because of the prophets</b>—so the Masorites and Targum. But <i>Vulgate, Septuagint,</i> etc., make this the inscription of the prophecy, CONCERNING THE PROPHETS: as in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',46,2);">Jer 46:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',48,1);">48:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',49,1);">49:1</a>. Jeremiah expresses his horror at the so-called "prophets" not warning the people, though iniquity so fearfully abounded, soon to be followed by awful judgments.
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<br><br><b>bones shake</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Hab',3,16);">Hab 3:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>drunken</b>—God's judgments are represented as stupefying like wine. The effects of the Holy Spirit also are compared to those of wine (<a onclick="return mV('Act',2,17);">Act 2:17</a>). In both cases ecstasy was produced. This accounts for the denial of wine to those likely to be inspired, Nazarites, etc. (<a onclick="return mV('Luk',1,15);">Luk 1:15</a>). It was necessary to put it out of men's power to ascribe inspired ecstasy to the effects of wine.
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<br><br><b>because of...words of...holiness</b>—because of Jehovah's holy words, wherewith He threatened severe penalties, soon to be inflicted, against the breakers of His law.
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<p id="Jer23_10"><b>10. adulterers</b>—spiritual, that is, forsakers of God, Israel's true Husband (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',54,5);">Isa 54:5</a>) for idols, at the instigation of the false "prophets" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,9, 15);">Jer 23:9, 15</a>). <i>Literal</i> adultery and fornication, the usual concomitants of idolatry, are also meant.
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<br><br><b>swearing</b>—MAURER, etc., translate, "Because of the curse (of God on it), the land mourneth" (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',27,'15-26');">Deu 27:15-26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,'15-68');">28:15-68</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,6);">Isa 24:6</a>). More than usual notoriety had been given to the curses of the law, by the finding and reading of it in Josiah's time (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',22,11);">2Ki 22:11</a>, etc.). But <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',4,2,3);">Hsa 4:2-3</a>, favors <i>English Version</i> (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',12,4);">Jer 12:4</a>). A drought was sent by God on the pastures ("pleasant places," oases) in the desert, on account of the "profaneness" of the priests, prophets, and people (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,11);">Jer 23:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>course...evil</b>—They (both prophets and people) rush into wickedness (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,21);">Jer 23:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,7);">Isa 59:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>force...not right</b>—Their <i>powers</i> are used not on the side of <i>rectitude,</i> but on that of falsehood.
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<p id="Jer23_11"><b>11. profane</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',23,39);">Eze 23:39</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zep',3,4);">Zep 3:4</a>).
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<br><br><b>in my house</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,30);">Jer 7:30</a>). They built altars to idols in the very temple (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,12);">2Ki 23:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',8,'3-16');">Eze 8:3-16</a>). Compare as to covetousness under the roof of the sanctuary, <a onclick="return mV('Mat',21,13);">Mat 21:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',2,16);">Jhn 2:16</a>.
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<p id="Jer23_12"><b>12. slippery ways in...darkness</b>—Their "way" is their false doctrine which proves fatal to them (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',13,16);">Jer 13:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,6);">Psa 35:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',4,19);">Pro 4:19</a>).
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<br><br><b>I will bring evil...visitation</b>—still more calamities than those already inflicted. See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer011.html#Jer11_23">Jer 11:23</a>; "visitation," namely, in wrath.
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<p id="Jer23_13"><b>13. folly</b>—literally, "insipidity," "unsavouriness" (<a onclick="return mV('Job',6,6);">Job 6:6</a>), not having the salt of godliness (<a onclick="return mV('Col',4,6);">Col 4:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>in Baal</b>—in the name of Baal; in connection with his worship (see <a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,8);">Jer 2:8</a>).
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<br><br><b>caused...to err</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,16);">Isa 9:16</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_14"><b>14.</b> "Jerusalem" and Judah were even worse than "Samaria" and the ten tribes; the greater were the privileges of the former, the greater was their guilt. They had the temple in their midst, which the ten tribes had not; yet in the temple itself they practised idolatry.
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<br><br><b>strengthen...hands of evildoers</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',13,22);">Eze 13:22</a>).
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<br><br><b>as Sodom</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,32);">Deu 32:32</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,10);">Isa 1:10</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_15"><b>15. gall</b>—poison (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer008.html#Jer8_14">Jer 8:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,15);">Jer 9:15</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_16"><b>16. make you vain</b>—They seduce you to vanity, that is, idolatry, which will prove a vain trust to you (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,5);">Jer 2:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',17,15);">2Ki 17:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jon',2,8);">Jon 2:8</a>), [GESENIUS]. Rather, "they delude you with vain promises of security" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,17);">Jer 23:17</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',62,10);">Psa 62:10</a>) [MAURER].
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<br><br><b>of their own heart</b>—of their own invention (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,21);">Jer 23:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',14,14);">Jer 14:14</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_17"><b>17. say still</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> "say in saying," that is, say <i>incessantly.</i>
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<br><br><b>peace</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,14);">Jer 6:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',13,10);">Eze 13:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',10,2);">Zec 10:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>imagination</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> "obstinacy."
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<br><br><b>no evil</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Mic',3,11);">Mic 3:11</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_18"><b>18.</b> A reason is given why the false prophets should not be heeded: <i>They have not stood in the counsels of Jehovah</i> (an image from ministers present in a <i>standing</i> posture at councils of Eastern kings) (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,22);">Jer 23:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',15,8);">Job 15:8</a>). The spiritual man alone has the privilege (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',18,17);">Gen 18:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',25,14);">Psa 25:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Amo',3,7);">Amo 3:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',15,15);">Jhn 15:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',2,16);">1Cr 2:16</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_19"><b>19.</b> So far from all prosperity awaiting the people as the false prophets say (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,17);">Jer 23:17</a>), wrath is in store for them.
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<br><br><b>grievous</b>—literally, "eddying," whirling itself about, a tornado. In <a onclick="return mV('Jer',30,23);">Jer 30:23</a>, "continuing" is substituted for "grievous."
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<br><br><b>fall grievously</b>—it shall be hurled on.
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<p id="Jer23_20"><b>20. in...latter days</b>—that is, "the year of their visitation" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,12);">Jer 23:12</a>). <i>Primarily</i> the meaning is: the Jews will not "consider" now God's warnings (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,29);">Deu 32:29</a>); but when the prophecies shall be fulfilled in their Babylonish exile, they will consider and see, by bitter experience, their sinful folly. The <i>ultimate</i> scope of the prophecy is: the Jews, in their final dispersion, shall at last "consider" their sin and turn to Messiah "perfectly" (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',3,5);">Hsa 3:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',12,5,'10-14');">Zec 12:5, 10-14 </a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',13,35);">Luk 13:35</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_21"><b>21. sent...spoken</b>—sent" refers to the primary <i>call:</i> "spoken" to the subsequent <i>charges</i> given to be executed. A call is required, not only external, on the part of men, but also internal from God, that one should undertake a pastor's office [CALVIN].
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<p id="Jer23_22"><b>22. stood in...counsel</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,18);">Jer 23:18</a>).
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<br><br><b>they should have turned them from their evil way</b>—They would have given such counsels to the people as would have turned them from their sins (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',25,5);">Jer 25:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',55,11);">Isa 55:11</a>), and so would have averted punishment. Their not teaching the law in which God's counsel is set forth proves they are not His prophets, though they boast of being so (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',7,'15-20');">Mat 7:15-20</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_23"><b>23.</b> Let not the false prophets fancy that their devices (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,25);">Jer 23:25</a>) are unknown to Me. Are ye so ignorant as to suppose that I can only see things near Me, namely, things in heaven, and not earthly things as being too remote?
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<p id="Jer23_24"><b>24.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',139,7);">Psa 139:7</a>, etc. <a onclick="return mV('Amo',9,2,3);">Amo 9:2-3</a>).
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<br><br><b>fill heaven and earth</b>—with My omniscience providence, power, and essential being (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',8,27);">1Ki 8:27</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_25"><b>25. dreamed</b>—I have received a prophetic communication by dream (<a onclick="return mV('Num',12,6);">Num 12:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',13,1);">Deu 13:1</a>, etc. <a onclick="return mV('Joe',2,28);">Joe 2:28</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_26"><b>26. prophets</b>—a different <i>Hebrew</i> form from the usual one, "prophesiers." "How long," cries Jeremiah, impatient of their impious audacity, "shall these <i>prophecy-mongers</i> go on prophesying lies?" The answer is given in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,'29-34');">Jer 23:29-34</a>.
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<p id="Jer23_27"><b>27.</b> They "think" to make My people utterly to forget Me. But I will oppose to those dreamers my true prophets.
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<br><br><b>fathers...for Baal</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jdg',3,7);">Jdg 3:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jdg',8,33,34);">8:33-34</a>;).
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<p id="Jer23_28"><b>28.</b> God answers the objection which might be stated, "What, then, must we do, when lies are spoken as truths, and prophets oppose prophets?" Do the same as when wheat is mixed with chaff: do not reject the wheat because of the chaff mixed with it, but discriminate between the false and the true revelations. The test is adherence to, or <i>forgetfulness</i> of, Me and My law (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,27);">Jer 23:27</a>).
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<br><br><b>that hath a dream</b>—that pretends to have a divine communication by dream, let him tell it "faithfully," that it may be compared with "my word" (<a onclick="return mV('2Cr',4,2);">2Cr 4:2</a>). The result will be the former (both the prophets and their fictions) will soon be seen to be <i>chaff;</i> the latter (the true prophets and the word of God in their mouth) <i>wheat</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',1,4);">Psa 1:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',13,3);">Hsa 13:3</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_29"><b>29.</b> As the "fire" consumes the "chaff" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,28);">Jer 23:28</a>), so "My word" will consume the false prophets (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',3,12);">Mat 3:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',4,12);">Hbr 4:12</a>). "My word" which is "wheat" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,28);">Jer 23:28</a>), that is, food to the true prophet and his hearers, is a consuming "fire," and a crushing "hammer" (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',21,44);">Mat 21:44</a>) to false prophets and their followers (<a onclick="return mV('2Cr',2,16);">2Cr 2:16</a>). The Word of the false prophets may be known by its promising men <i>peace</i> in sin. "My word," on the contrary, burns and <i>breaks</i> the hard-hearted (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',20,9);">Jer 20:9</a>). The "hammer" symbolizes destructive power (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',50,23);">Jer 50:23</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Nah',2,1);">Nah 2:1</a>, <i>Margin</i>).
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<p id="Jer23_30"><b>30. steal my words</b>—a twofold plagiarism; one steals from the other, and all steal words from Jehovah's true prophets, but misapply them (see <a onclick="return mV('Jer',28,2);">Jer 28:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',10,1);">Jhn 10:1</a> <a onclick="return mV('Rev',22,19);">Rev 22:19</a>).
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<p id="Jer23_31"><b>31. use</b>—rather, "take" their tongue: a second class (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,30);">Jer 23:30</a>) require, in order to bring forth a revelation, nothing more than their <i>tongues,</i> wherewith they say, He (Jehovah) saith: they bungle in the very formula instead of the usual "<i>Jehovah</i> saith," being only able to say "(He) saith."
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<p id="Jer23_32"><b>32.</b> Third class: inventors of lies: the climax, and worst of the three.
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<br><br><b>lightness</b>—wanton inventions (<a onclick="return mV('Zep',3,4);">Zep 3:4</a>).
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<br><br><b>not profit</b>—that is, greatly injure.
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<p id="Jer23_33"><b>33. What is the burden</b>—play on the double sense of the <i>Hebrew:</i> an <i>oracle</i> and a <i>burden.</i> They scoffingly ask, Has he got any new burden (<i>burdensome oracle:</i> for all his prophecies are <i>disasters</i>) to announce (<a onclick="return mV('Mal',1,1);">Mal 1:1</a>)? Jeremiah indignantly repeats their own question, Do you ask, What burden? This, then, it is, "I will forsake you." My word is burdensome in your eyes, and you long to be rid if it. You shall get your wish. There will be no more prophecy: <i>I will forsake you,</i> and that will be a far worse "burden" to you.
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<p id="Jer23_34"><b>34. The burden</b>—Whoever shall in mockery call the Lord's word "a burden," shall be <i>visited</i> (<i>Margin</i>) in wrath.
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<p id="Jer23_35"><b>35.</b> The result of My judgments shall be, ye shall address the prophet more reverentially hereafter, no longer calling his message a <i>burden,</i> but a divine <i>response</i> or <i>word.</i> "What hath the LORD <i>answered?</i>"
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<p id="Jer23_36"><b>36. every man's word...his burden</b>—As they mockingly <i>call</i> all prophecies <i>burdens,</i> as if calamities were the sole subject of prophecy, so it shall prove to them. <i>God will take them at their own word.</i>
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<br><br><b>living God</b>—not lifeless as their dumb idols, ever living so as to be able to punish.
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<p id="Jer23_39"><b>39. I will...forget you</b>—just retribution for their <i>forgetting</i> Him (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',4,6);">Hsa 4:6</a>). But God cannot possibly <i>forget</i> His children (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',49,15);">Isa 49:15</a>). Rather for "forget" translate, "I will altogether lift you up (like a 'burden,' alluding to their mocking term for God's messages) and cast you off." God makes their wicked language fall on their own head [CALVIN]. Compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,36);">Jer 23:36</a>: "every man's word shall be his burden."
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<p id="Jer23_40"><b>40. not be forgotten</b>—If we translate <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,39);">Jer 23:39</a> as <i>English Version,</i> the antithesis is, though <i>I forget you,</i> your <i>shame shall not be forgotten.</i>
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