Jeremiah 23:17 - Exposition

Unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said . The Septuagint and the Syriac render the same text (the consonants are alone the text) with different vowels, thus: "Unto those who despise the word of the Lord." In favor of this it may be urged that the phrase, "The Lord hath said," is nowhere else used in this abrupt way to introduce a real or supposed revelation, and Hitzig and Graf accordingly accept it. Ye shall have peace ; as Jeremiah 6:14 . After the imagination ; rather, in the stubbornness (see on Jeremiah 3:17 ).