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Lamentaciones 2:14
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Tus profetas tuvieron para ti visiones falsas y necias, y no manifestaron tu iniquidad para que regresaras de tu cautiverio, sino que vieron para ti oráculos falsos y engañosos.
Tus profetas vieron para ti vanidad y locura; y no descubrieron tu pecado para impedir tu cautiverio, sino que te predicaron vanas profec�as y extrav�os.
Nun : Tus profetas te predicaron vanidad y locura; y no descubrieron tu pecado para estorbar tu cautiverio, sino que te predicaron vanas profec�as y disgresiones.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
prophets: Isaiah 9:15, Isaiah 9:16, Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 8:10, Jeremiah 8:11, Jeremiah 14:13-15, Jeremiah 23:11-17, Jeremiah 27:14-16, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 29:8, Jeremiah 29:9, Jeremiah 37:19, Ezekiel 13:2-16, Micah 2:11, Micah 3:5-7, 2 Peter 2:1-3
they have: Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 23:22, Ezekiel 13:22
false: Jeremiah 23:14-17, Jeremiah 23:31, Jeremiah 23:32, Jeremiah 27:9, Jeremiah 27:10, Ezekiel 22:25, Ezekiel 22:28, Micah 3:5, Zephaniah 3:4
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 14:14 - and the Jeremiah 20:6 - thy friends Jeremiah 23:17 - Ye Jeremiah 28:13 - Thou hast Jeremiah 29:21 - which Lamentations 4:13 - the sins Ezekiel 12:24 - General Ezekiel 13:3 - foolish Ezekiel 13:5 - gaps Ezekiel 13:6 - have seen Ezekiel 13:12 - Where Ezekiel 21:29 - to bring Hosea 9:7 - the prophet Hosea 9:8 - but Zechariah 10:2 - the diviners Zechariah 11:15 - a foolish Zechariah 12:1 - burden Ephesians 5:13 - reproved
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee,.... Not the prophets of the Lord; but false prophets, as the Targum; which were of the people's choosing, and were acceptable to them; prophets after their own hearts, because they prophesied smooth things, such as they liked; though in the issue they proved "vain" and "foolish", idle stories, impertinent talk, the fictions of their own brains; and yet they pretended to have visions of them from the Lord; as that within two years Jeconiah, and all the vessels of the temple carried away by the king of Babylon, should be returned; and that he would not come against Jerusalem, nor should it be delivered into his hands; see
Jeremiah 28:2;
and they have not discovered thine iniquity: they did not tell them of their sins; they took no pains to convince them of them, but connived at them; instead of reproving them for them, they soothed them in them; they did not "remove" the covering that was "over [their] iniquity" u, as it might be rendered; which they might easily have done, and laid their sirs to open view: whereby they might have been ashamed of them, and brought to repentance for them. The Targum is,
"neither have they manifested the punishment that should come upon thee for thy sins;''
but, on the contrary, told them it should not come upon them; had they dealt faithfully with them, by showing them their transgressions, and the consequences of them, they might have been a means of preventing their ruin: and, as it here follows,
to turn away thy captivity; either to turn them from their backslidings and wanderings about, as Jarchi; or to turn them by repentance, as the Targum; or to prevent their going into captivity:
but have seen for thee false burdens, and causes of banishment; that is, false prophecies against Babylon, and in favour of the Jews; prophecies, even those that are true, being often called "burdens", as the "burden of Egypt", and "the burden of Damascus", c. and the rather this name is here given to those false prophecies because the prophecies of Jeremiah were reproached by them with it, Jeremiah 23:33, c. and because these proved in the issue burdensome, sad, and sorrowful ones though they once tickled and pleased and were the cause of the people's going into exile and captivity they listening to them: or they were "depulsions" or "expulsions" w drivings, that drove them from the right way; from God and his worship; from his word and prophets; and, at last, the means of driving them out of their own land; of impelling them to sin, and so of expelling them from their own country. The Targum renders it,
"words of error.''
u ולא גלו על עונך "et non revelarunt [legmen] pravitati tuae impositum", Christ. Ben. Miehaelis. w ומדוחים και εξωσματα, Sept. "et expulsiones", Montanus, Vatablus, Calvin; "et ad depulsionem spectantium", Junius Tremellius "depulsiones, expulsiones", Stockius, p. 649.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee - The Septuagint and Vulgate give the true meaning, “stupidity” (see Jeremiah 23:13 note).
To turn away thy captivity - The right sense is, “They have not disclosed to thee thy sins, that so thou mightest repent, and I might have turned away thy captivity.”
Burdens - Applied contemptuously to predictions which proved “false” or “empty,” i. e. failed of accomplishment. On the deduction to be drawn from this, see Jeremiah 28:9.
Causes of banishment - The result of the teaching of the false prophets would be that God would “drive out” the Jews from their land.
Some render the words “false ... banishment” by “oracles of falsehood and seduction.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. They have not discovered thine iniquity — They did not reprove for sin, they flattered them in their transgressions; and instead of turning away thy captivity, by turning thee from thy sins, they have pretended visions of good in thy favour, and false burdens for thy enemies.
