Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them, and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes inspired by the true God, as were Miriam, Deborah,…
Adam Clarke
Ye shall see no more vanity - They pretended visions; but they were empty of reality.
Nor divine divinations - As God would not speak to them, they employed demons. Where God is not, because of the…
As God has promised that when he pours out his Spirit upon his people both their sons and their daughters shall prophesy, so the devil, when he acts as a spirit of lies and falsehood, is so in the…
Cambridge Bible
The judgment of God is at hand which shall make an end of all false prophecy and divination. Ch. Eze 12:24; Mic 3:6-7; Amo 8:11. The issue of these judgments shall be that Jehovah shall be known in…
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