They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... This is what he says, and it may be depended on will come to pass; though the other he said not, they said he did, but was a lying divination:
because ye have…
Barnes' Notes
And they have made others ... - Rather, “and they hope for the confirmation of their word.” They come to believe their own lies.
The false prophets, who are here prophesied against, were some of them at Jerusalem (Jer 23:14): I have seen in the prophets at Jerusalem a horrible thing; some of them among the captives in Babylon,…
Cambridge Bible
Their prophecies are false: they are self-deceived
6. have madeothers to hope Rather: they have hoped for the confirmation of the word. The usual sense of the verb is to "hope;" only in a single…
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