let them now make intercession to the LORD] Not that God at their intercession would grant it; but partly to shew what the office of Gods Prophets is; as well to pray for the people, as to preach to them. Genesis 20:7. Isaiah 37:4. and withall to intimate, that they could not by their prayer obtain that of God, which yet they promised the people as from God. Malachi 1:9.