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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 23:9 - 23:9
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because of the prophets - so the Masorites and Targum. But Vulgate, Septuagint, etc., make this the inscription of the prophecy, concerning the prophets: as in Jer 46:2; Jer 48:1; Jer 49:1. Jeremiah expresses his horror at the so-called “prophets” not warning the people, though iniquity so fearfully abounded, soon to be followed by awful judgments.
bones shake - (Hab 3:16).
drunken - God’s judgments are represented as stupefying like wine. The effects of the Holy Spirit also are compared to those of wine (Act 2:17). In both cases ecstasy was produced. This accounts for the denial of wine to those likely to be inspired, Nazarites, etc. (Luk 1:15). It was necessary to put it out of men’s power to ascribe inspired ecstasy to the effects of wine.
because of ... words of ... holiness - because of Jehovah’s holy words, wherewith He threatened severe penalties, soon to be inflicted, against the breakers of His law.