JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 4:10 Jeremiah speaks in frustration. He claims God has said that all shall be well when in fact divine wrath is coming. Apparently he quotes the false prophets (Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 23:16). He wonders why God has allowed these prophets to speak at all if they are so wrong. But elsewhere in Scripture, God sometimes sends deceiving spirits into the false prophets (see note on 1 Sam. 16:14). Though God himself never does evil, he sometimes sends evil agents to accomplish his purposes of judgment.

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