Mine heart within me, &c.— We have here a new discourse against the false prophets, with whom afterwards the priests are joined: Jeremiah declares that, upon a view of the evils with which they are threatened, he is in trouble and agitation like that of a man who has lost his reason in wine; Jeremiah 23:9-15. The words may be read, As to, or concerning the prophets, my heart is broken within me, &c. He then exhorts the people in the name of God not to listen to the words of the prophets that prophesied of peace, when evil was determined, and would infallibly take place, as would in time appear; and charges those prophets with speaking of themselves, and not from the divine commission, Jeremiah 23:16-22. God asserts his omnipresence and omniscience; and reproves the audaciousness of the false prophets, who affected to place their own idle dreams on a level with the all-powerful and efficacious word of divine revelation; declaring himself against the several species of those impostors; Jeremiah 23:23-32. In fine, he requires all sorts of persons to desist from an indecency in common use, of styling his word a burden; and threatens severely to punish those who in defiance of this command should continue to cast such a slur upon it.
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Jeremiah 23:9
9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.