Jeremiah’s own wishes concurred with Hananiah’s prediction, but he asserts that this prediction was at variance with the language of the older prop…

Jeremiah, having testified that he did not wish for anything harmful to his own people, but wished them well, now adds that what he had predicted w…

Nevertheless, hear you now this word that I speak in your ears and in the ears of all the people; Though this would be ve…

Hananiah spoke a false prophecy. His prophecy contained no word of good counsel urging the Jews to repent and return to God. He promises temporal m…

1. Here, Jeremiah’s response is given. First, he shows his emotion by desiring that what he had said would be fulfilled: amen