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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 2:14 - 2:14
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Thy prophets - not God’s (Jer 23:26).
vain ... for thee - to gratify thy appetite, not for truth, but for false things.
not discovered thine iniquity - in opposition to God’s command to the true prophets (Isa 58:1). Literally, “They have not taken off (the veil) which was on thine iniquity, so as to set it before thee.”
burdens - Their prophecies were soothing and flattering; but the result of them was heavy calamities to the people, worse than even what the prophecies of Jeremiah, which they in derision called “burdens,” threatened. Hence he terms their pretended prophecies “false burdens,” which proved to the Jews “causes of their banishment” [Calvin].