Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
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Gill's Exposition
Her prophets [are] light [and treacherous persons The false prophets, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it: these seem to design the lawyers spoken of in the New Testament, whose business it was to…
Barnes' Notes
Her prophets are light - , boiling and bubbling, up, like water boiling over , empty boasters claiming the gift of prophecy, which they have not; “boldly and rashly pouring out what they willed as…
Adam Clarke
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons - They have no seriousness, no deep conviction of the awful nature of their office, no concern for the immortal souls of the people. Treacherous persons…
One would wonder that Jerusalem, the holy city, where God was known, and his name was great, should be the city of which this black character is here given, that a place which enjoyed such abundance…
Cambridge Bible
Her prophetsare light Both the idea and the expression find a parallel in Jer 23:32, "I am against them that prophesy false dreams, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness"…
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