These verses are not in the Septuagint. However, the Septuagint text is so consistently brief and confused here that it can only be explained by th…

Jeremiah announces a special prophecy, but in confirmation of his former doctrine. His object is still the same: to prevent the captives, as they h…

Hear you therefore the word of the Lord
What he was now about to say concerning their false prophets: al…

Jeremiah foretells judgments upon the false prophets, who deceived the Jews in Babylon. Lying was bad; lying to the people of the Lord, to delude t…

1. Here, the prophet excludes false repentance. Those in captivity might have come to regret surrendering when they saw others still remaini…