and we will report it: All my familiars watched for my halting; saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him_, (chapter xx. 7, 8, 10.) And elsewhere, _Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me_, (chapter xv. 19.) ♦ “Jereboam” replaced with “Jeroboam” 17. But _if a man walking in the spirit of falshood, do lie_ (saith the prophet _Micah_) _saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people_, (chapter ii. 11.) And God gave them pastors after their own hearts: such were those sons of _Eli, sons of Belial, who knew not the Lord_, (1 Samuel ii. 12.) rapacious, covetous, violent men, (verses 14, 15, 16.) by reason of whom _men abhorred the offering of the Lord_, (verse 17.) who not only _made themselves vile_, (chapter iii. 13.) but also _made the Lord’s people to transgress_, (chapter ii. 24.) while they _made themselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of_ Israel, (verse 29.) Such were those of whom _Isaiah_ says, _The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine_, (chapter xxviii. 7.) _Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant_, (chapter lvi. 12.) Therefore (saith he) _the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and the seers hath he covered; and the vision of all is become unto you, as the words of a book that is sealed_, (chapter xxix. 10, 11.) Such also were those of whom he saith, _His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark, sleeping, laying down, loving to slumber_. _Greedy dogs, which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter_, (chapter lvi. 10, 11.) Little better were those of whom the prophets that followed have left us so dreadful an account; _Both prophet and priest are prophane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. And from the prophets of_ Jerusalem, _is prophaneness gone forth into all the land_, (Jeremiah xxiii. 11, 15.) _Her priests have violated my law, and have prophaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and the prophane, and I am prophaned among them_, (Ezekiel xxii. 26.) _If I be a Father, where is mine honour; and if I be a master, where is my fear? Saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name_, (Malachi i. 6.)