Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity… 1. False teachers are as grievous a plague as can be laid upon a people. They bring with them inevitable destruction (Matthew 15:14). 2. They that refuse to receive the true ministers, God will give them over to be seduced by false teachers and to believe lies (2 Chronicles 36:15; Proverbs 1:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12). 3. It is a certain note of a false prophet, to speak such things in the name of the Lord as are untrue, or misalleged to please the carnal desires of the people (Jeremiah 14:13-15). 4. It is not sufficient for a true minister not to flatter; he must also discover the people's sins unto them (Ezekiel 13:4; 1 Kings 18:18; Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:8; Matthew 14:4). 5. The only way to avoid God's plagues is gladly to suffer ourselves bitterly to be reproved by God's ministers. 6. The falsehood that is taught by false prophets, and believed by a seduced people, is the cause of all God's punishments that light upon them. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. |
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