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Jeremiah 23:11 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 23 · verse 11
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 23:11 · King James Version
Jeremiah 23:11 in context
9Mine 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.
10For 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.
11For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
12Wherefore 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.
13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- prophetnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- profanechânêphto soil, especially in a moral senseH2610 →
- priestkôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- foundmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-32