For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Ver. 13. For the sins of her prophets.] These, these were the right cause of her ruin. Not that the people were not faulty - for they "loved to have it so" Jer 5:31 - but those were the ringleaders in that general defection.