Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Because—referring not to the preceding words, but to Jeremiah 29:10-11, "Jehovah saith this to you" (that is, the prophecy of the continuance of the captivity seventy years), "because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon," namely, foretelling our speedy deliverance (this their prophecy is supposed, not expressed; accordingly, Jeremiah 29:16-19 contradict this false hope again, Jeremiah 29:8-9, Jeremiah 29:21). He, in this fifteenth verse, turns his address from the godly (Jeremiah 29:12-14) to the ungodly listeners, to false prophets.
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