John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

He adds here that it ought not to appear strange that the prophets were silent when they ought to have loudly cried out, because they were guilty themselves: and whence can freedom of speech come except from a good conscience?

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly. The prophet had complained to God of those false prophets (Jer 14:13), and had often foretold that they should be involved in the common ruin; but here they have woes of their own. I.

Commenting on Jeremiah 23:9-32

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

For both prophet and priest are profane,.... Being guilty of the afore mentioned sins. The Targum is, "the scribe and the priest;'' and such were the scribes and priests in the time of our Lord; they played "the hypocrite" (q), as some render the word here; and are often charged with the sin of hypocrisy, and called hypocrites, Mat 22:18; yea, in my house have...