They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
Ver. 12. They have belied the Lord.] Or, They give the Lord the lie - as Montfort, Earl of Leicester, gave his sovereign, Henry III, a the lie. Every unbeliever doth as much, upon the matter; 1Jn 5:10 see the note there, Nam etiamsi non semper ore obloquitur, factis tamen obluctatur, b
And said, It is not he,] scil., That speaketh, but the prophets speak their own dreams and fancies. Or, as some render the text, He is not; there is no God to reward us if we do well, or to punish us if we do worse. See my Commonplace of Atheism.
a Daniel's Hist., 172.
b Oecolamp.