George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 29:8
Prophets. There were many false ones, ver. 21., and Ezechiel xiii. --- Dreams. The prophets, or people. They are vain.
Prophets. There were many false ones, ver. 21., and Ezechiel xiii. --- Dreams. The prophets, or people. They are vain.
Verse Jeremiah 29:8. _NEITHER HEARKEN TO YOUR DREAMS_] Rather, _dreamers_; for it appears there was a class of such persons, who not only had acquired a facility of dreaming themselves, but who undert...
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...
JEREMIAH 29. THE FUTURE OF THE EXILES IN BABYLON (_c_. 595). Jeremiah sends a letter by royal messengers to tell the exiles in Babylon to settle down there for a lengthy stay, and not to be deceived b...
See introd. note to section. Instead of looking for an immediate return to Palestine, which would cause the exiles to sit loose to the country where they found themselves, they were to be interested i...
_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 arise...
3. _A warning to the captives_ (Jeremiah 29:8-10) TRANSLATION (8) For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not the prophets that are in your midst, and your diviners as well, deceive y...
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed....
29:8 dream. (a-34) Or 'cause to be dreamed.'...
1-14. Jeremiah's letter to the exiles. Release after seventy years....
LET NOT YOUR PROPHETS AND YOUR DIVINERS... — The words are significant as showing that the same agencies which were counteracting the prophet’s teaching in Jerusalem were at work also in Babylon. Ther...
כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֜ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י...
CHAPTER X CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EXILES Jeremiah 29:1 "Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire."- Jeremiah 29:22 NOTHING further is said about the pr...
As a result of this false prophesying, Jeremiah sent a letter to the exiles. It is evident that they also were disturbed. The letter instructed them, first, concerning their present position, advising...
There have been, and there always will be, as long as the Church continues militant upon earth, persons to prophecy smooth things, to prophecy deceits, saying, peace, peace, when there is no peace. It...
As the minds of almost all were taken up, as we have seen, with that vain and false confidence which they had imbibed from false prophecies, that they should return after two years, the Prophet gives...
On the other hand the prophet comforts those who, by the judgment of God, were subjected to the yoke which He had imposed upon them. The Jews in Babylon should dwell in peace, quietly seeking the welf...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Jeremiah 29:4; LET NOT YOUR PROPHETS AND YOUR DIVINERS, THAT [BE] IN THE MIDST OF YOU, DECEIVE YOU; their false prophets, as the Targum; and...
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed....
_For thus saith the Lord of hosts_ The prophet continues to speak by the authority of God; _Let not your prophets, &c., deceive you_ Suffer not yourselves to be deluded by them. While we have the word...
JEREMIAH'S LETTER TO THE EXILES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. The Contents of the Letter. Just as certain false prophets in Jerusalem had tried to arouse and maintain false hopes in the inhabitants of the ca...
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Let not your prophets and your diviners that be in the midst of you, whose business nourished because of the willing credulity of the people, DECEI...
8-19 Let men beware how they call those prophets whom they choose after their own fancies, and how they consider their fancies and dreams to be revelations from God. False prophets flatter people in...
The Lord knows that you have a company of false prophets that tell you other things, and promise you a sudden return out of your captivity, pretending to know it by revelation from God, or by divinati...
Jeremiah 29:8 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 prophets H5030 diviners H7080 ...
THE CALL FOR THE EXILES TO SETTLE DOWN IN BABYLON AND PAY NO HEED TO THE FALSE PROPHETS (JEREMIAH 29:4). Jeremiah 29:4 “Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have...
JEREMIAH'S LETTER TO THE EXILES (JEREMIAH 29:1). Correspondence by letter was a constant feature of those days, and indicates that the world was not static (compare the prophetic letters from Shemaiah...
CONTENTS: Message to the Jews of the first captivity. Action against false prophets. Destruction foretold. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeconiah, Elasah, Gemariah, Ahab, Zedekiah, Shemaiah,...
Jeremiah 29:10. _After seventy years._ See Jeremiah 26:1. Zechariah fixes the captivity at the same number of years, and he flourished sometime after Jeremiah's death. No doubt the captivity was exact...
_I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end._ THE THOUGHTS OF GOD TO HIS PEOPLE, PEACE AND NOT EVIL These words were...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This letter and its transmission are usually dated the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign (because of chap. Jeremiah 28:1), but Jeremiah 29:2...
EXPOSITION Despised and rejected at home, Jeremiah turned his thoughts to those distant brethren in captivity, whom he had already likened to "good figs, very good" (Jeremiah 24:3, Jeremiah 24:5). He...
Now Jeremiah sent this letter, chapter 29, to those Jews that were in Babylon. And, of course, this letter was sent to them and one of the chief of the princes that was in Babylon was Daniel. So Danie...
2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 John 1:7; 2 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 2:3;...