A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes…

Likewise, you son of man, set your face ... —This passage deals with a class of people, the false prophetesses, who are not mentio…

Here God accuses these women of a double crime. One crime was that which I have mentioned: cruelly destroying the souls that were sacred to God and…

And will you pollute me among my people
Defile the name of the Lord, by abusing it, to cover their wicked designs an…

It is a bad state for those who would rather hear pleasing lies than unpleasing truths. The false prophetesses tried to make people feel secure, si…