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The seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
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The Exposure of Falsehood
Commentators agree this verse describes the public shaming of false prophets whose predictions fail to materialize. Scholars like Calvin and Gill clarify that the phrase 'no answer of God' doesn't mean God stops speaking to them, but that it becomes obvious to everyone that God never spoke through them in the first place. Their deception is utterly exposed.
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Micah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They shall cover their lips - Literally, the hair of the upper lip. This was an action enjoined on lepers (Leviticus 13:45), and…
19th Century
Anglican
They shall all cover their lips. —As the lepers, who were cut off from all communication with men, so also these false pr…
16th Century
Protestant
God declares here to the false teachers by the mouth of Micah, that He would inflict punishment on them, so that they would be exposed to the repro…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded , &c.] When the events of things will make it most clea…
People cannot expect to do wrong and fare well; but should expect to find done to them what they did to others. How rarely do wholesome truths reac…
