way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness,” and perish at the visitation of the Lord (vers. 10–12). Not only in Judah was this the state of things, but in Samaria, from whence the ten tribes of the northern kingdom had been carried into Assyria long before: prophets had arisen who “prophesied in Baal,” and caused the remnant that were left in the land to err (ver. 13). But it was in Jerusalem that the evil was most manifest. There the prophets themselves, licentious and untruthful,