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For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:
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Deceit's True Victim
Commentators unanimously highlight that the people's deceit was ultimately self-destructive. By pretending to seek God's will while already determined to follow their own, they weren't fooling God or the prophet; they were, as scholars put it, deceiving their 'own souls.' This serves as a powerful warning that when we are dishonest with God, we are the primary victims, bringing ruin upon ourselves through our own craftiness.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ye dissembled in your hearts - Or, “you have led yourselves astray,” that is, your sending me to ask counsel of God was an act of s…
19th Century
Anglican
For ye dissembled in your hearts ... —Looks and whispers betrayed, we may believe, the feelings of the prophet’s hearers.…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet explains their sin more fully, for their punishment might have appeared extreme if their impiety had not been more clearly unfolde…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you dissembled in your hearts. Did not honestly and faithfully declare their intentions; they said one thing with the…
If we wish to know the Lord's mind in doubtful cases, we must wait as well as pray. God is always ready to return in mercy to those he has afflicte…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the instruction is given; concerning this, there are three points.
He speaks of the authority of the one revealing…
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