Jeremiah 23:12
Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD.
Cross References
Exodus 32:34And now go, lead the people to [the place] of which I have spoken to thee. Behold, my [heavenly] agent shall go before thee. Nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.
Psalms 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery, and the agent of LORD pursuing them.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.
Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says LORD.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:10-33
Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 600.) 9 Mine 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. 10 For 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. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their… Read the whole commentary →