They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
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Gill's Exposition
They say still unto them that despise me,.... That despised the word, worship, and ordinances of the Lord; with such mockers and scoffers at religion, such abandoned creatures, they associated…
Barnes' Notes
Still - “Continually.” This verse gives the chief test by which the false prophet is to be detected, namely, that his predictions violate the laws of morality.
Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.…
Cambridge Bible
that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye The mg. is supported by Syr., and is to be preferred, involving only a change of vowels. The MT. for "hath said" is an expression which does not elsewhere…
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