Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 6:13

13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness , and from the prophet even unto the Priest, every one dealeth falsly.

Not respecting so much their age, as degree, and quality, poor and rich, the Prophet notes the generality of their corruption as the reason of Gods severity aginst them, as ver. 6. observing also, that it was even among the greatest, who ought to have given better examples, no soundness from head to foot.

In which possibly, all their wickednesses as Cruelty, oppression, Injustice, &c. may be comprized, it being the root of all evil, 1 Tim. 6.10. and may also speak, the Justice of God in the Chaldeans taking them, and all their substance away, that had by violence, and fraud wrested it from others, Mic. 2.2.

Heb. doing falshood, as if that were their whole work, the proper and peculiar sin of the Priests and Prophets, to deceive the People, and to flatter them by false Visions, as in the next verse; not, that they were not also guilty of the other sins, Isa. 56.11. and the Princes and People of this Mic. 3.8. chap. 5.31. for they were all involved in the same wickedness; but the Prophet mentions those sins that were most peculiar to each party. See the same chap. 8.10. Mic. 1. ad 8.

Marginal references: chap. 14.18. & 23.11.