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For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
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Misplaced Trust Leads to Ruin
Commentators explain that this verse diagnoses the root cause of Israel's suffering. By turning to idols ('teraphim'), diviners, and false dreams instead of trusting God, the people were left leaderless and afflicted. Their wandering into captivity is compared to sheep going astray because they lacked a true shepherd, serving as a powerful lesson on the consequences of spiritual infidelity.
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Zechariah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the teraphim have spoken vanity - Rather, they “spoke vanity.” He appeals to their former experience. Their father had sought from idols…
19th Century
Anglican
Idols. — Better, as in the margin, teraphim. (See the notes on Judges 17:5.)
Against the post-exilic origin of thi…
Baptist
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain:
Observe the r…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet, as I have said, confirms the truth that the blame justly belonged to the Jews for God not dealing more liberally with them; for h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the idols have spoken vanity The vanities of the Gentiles cannot give rain; if they promise it, they speak vain t…
Spiritual blessings had been promised under figurative allusions to earthly plenty. Seasonable rain is a great mercy, which we may ask of God when …
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