Every word denotes the certainty of their fall. Their path is like slippery places in darkness; and on this path, they are pushed with…

Slippery ways ... darkness ... driven on.— The words and the thoughts flow into the prophet’s mind from Isaiah 8:22;[Refe…

They shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. And I have seen …

Here he declares to false prophets and unfaithful priests that the Lord’s judgment was near at hand, because they had deceived the people. But he s…

Wherefore their way shall be to them as slippery [ways] in the darkness Their course of life may fittingly be compared, a…

The false prophets of Samaria had deceived the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem guilty of more h…

Here, he notes the wickedness of the prophets as the cause of the wickedness of the people: