Jeremiah 29:8

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... See Gill on Jer 29:4;

let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you; their false prophets, as the Targum;…

Your prophets and your diviners - The evils from which the people had suffered so cruelly at home followed them in their exile. Dreams which ye cause to be dreamed - As long as there was a market for…

To make the people quiet and easy in their captivity,

I. God takes them off from building upon the false foundation which their pretended prophets laid, Jer 29:8, Jer 29:9. They told them that their…

cause to be dreamed mg. dream. The MT., as it stands, gives the sense as in the text, but its form is Aramaic rather than Hebrew and the causative sense is not wanted. The apparent error has arisen…