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Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Wherefore 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.

In Context

11For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

13And in prophets of Samaria I have seen folly, They have prophesied by Baal, And cause my people — Israel — to err.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:34and now, go, lead the people whithersoever I have spoken to thee of; lo, My messenger goeth before thee, and in the day of my charging — then I have charged upon them their sin.'

Psalms 35:6Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer.

Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

Jeremiah 8:12They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, And blushing they have not known, Therefore, they do fall among falling ones, In the time of their inspection they stumble, said Jehovah.

Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed [it] for thick darkness.

Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Woe [is] on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.

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 →

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