And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
Ver. 9. And my hand shall be upon the prophets] God's hand is a mighty hand; 1Pe 5:6 the heaven is spanned by it, the earth held in the hollow of it.
They shall not be in the assembly of my people,] a Or, In the secret, or councils; they shall have no communion with them. A heavy threat; for the communion of saints, next unto communion with God, is the greatest comfort here attainable.
Neither shall they be written,] As members of that commonwealth, - much less of the Jerusalem that is above, Isa 4:4 - but rooted out of the world, written in the earth (Jeremiah 17:13; see Psa 69:28).
Neither shall they enter.] They shall never come back out of Babylon, nor enter into heaven.
a Dicit eos fore prorsus extraneos ab Ecclesia. Tesseris Eeclesiae aspectabilibus abalienati permanebunt. - Jun.