5 Thus says the Lordaconcerning the prophets Who make my people stray; Who chant1 “Peace” While they bchew with their teeth, But who prepare war against him cWho puts nothing into their mouths:
6 “Thereforea you shall have night without vision, And you shall have darkness without divination; The sun shall go down on the prophets, And the day shall be dark for bthem.
7 So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; aFor thereis no answer from God.”
8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, And of justice and might, aTo declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.
9 Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And1 rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity,
cover their lips—The Orientals prided themselves on the moustache and beard ("upper lip," Margin). To cover it, therefore, was a token of shame and sorrow (Leviticus 13:45; Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22). "They shall be so ashamed of themselves as not to dare to open their mouths or boast of the name of prophet" [CALVIN].
there is no answer of God—They shall no more profess to have responses from God, being struck dumb with calamities (Micah 3:6).
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