Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah." — Jeremiah 8:10-12 (ASV)
Every one from the least ... —The prophet reproduces, though not verbally, what he had already said in Jeremiah 6:12-15. (Compare Notes there.) It is as though that emphatic condemnation of the sins of the false teachers were burnt into his soul, and could not help but find expression whenever he addressed the people.