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Then; in the days of this calamity, which shall confute all the flattering promises of these prophets.
The seers, who called themselves, were accounted by others, and were advised with as men that had visions from God, were prophets in name and repute with the deceived people.
Be ashamed; their impostures being detected, they shall be covered with shame, the people shall talk what they are, and tell them to their faces wherever they meet them that they are false and lying varlets, not worthy to live, and the very consciences of these men shall then fly in their faces and upbraid them.
The diviners confounded; diviners here are seers, slid being confounded the same with ashamed; this ingemination adds to the thing spoken, at least a fuller verification of it.
They shall all cover their lips; so lepers did, Lev_13:45; and men ashamed and mourners did thus, Eze_24:17,22. So these shall mourn and pine in their shame.
For there is no answer of God; God doth not answer them; rather, because the answer they had formerly given and pretended to be from God now appears not to have been from him, they should therefore by the sentence of the law be stoned, Deu_13:10 Zec_13:3: so Elijah dealt with Baal’s prophets, and it is like these false prophets detected might fear the like from those they had deceived.