The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 14:13

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"Pleading with Providence, the good prophet lays the blame on ill teaching, but the stern answer (Jeremiah 14:14), admitting the plea as true, rejects it as inadequate (Jeremiah 14:14), and denounces sorrows which (Jeremiah 14:17-22) the prophet passionately deprecates" (Rowland Williams).

Ah, Lord God! rather, Alas! O Lord Jehovah (see on Jeremiah 1:6). The prophets say unto them. The greater part of the prophetic order had not kept pace with its more spiritual members (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.

). They still traded on those natural gifts of divination (Micah 3:6) which were, no doubt, where genuine, of Divine origin, but which, even then, needed to be supple-merited and controlled by a special impulse from the Spirit of holiness.

Jeremiah, however, declares, on the authority of a revelation, that these prophets did not divine by any God-given faculty, but "the deceit of their own heart" (Verse 14). The Deuteronomic Torah, discovered after a period of concealment at the outset of Jeremiah's ministry, energetically forbids the practice of the art of divination (Deuteronomy 18:10).

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