Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I know—I alone; not the false prophets who know nothing of My purposes, though they pretend to know.
thoughts . . . I think— (Isaiah 55:9). Glancing at the Jews who had no "thoughts of peace," but only of "evil" (misfortune), because they could not conceive how deliverance could come to them. The moral malady of man is twofold—at one time vain confidence; then, when that is disappointed, despair. So the Jews first laughed at God's threats, confident that they should speedily return; then, when cast down from that confidence, they sank in inconsolable despondency.
expected end—literally, "end and expectation," that is, an end, and that such an end as you wish for. Two nouns joined by "and," standing for a noun and adjective. So in Jeremiah 36:27, "the roll and the words," that is, the roll of words; Genesis 3:16, "sorrow and conception," that is, sorrow in conception. Compare Proverbs 23:18, where, as here "end" means "a happy issue."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 29:11:
Jeremiah 29:15
Zechariah 1:13
1 Corinthians 10:13
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