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…

He explains in other words what we saw yesterday, but the repetition adds to the weight of the matter. The Prophet therefore shows that he had a ju…

Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad ,
&c.] By polluting the name of the Lord; by hunting …

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…