Jeremiah 29:8 - Exposition

Let not your prophets and your diviners , etc. It seems as if the Babylonian "Jewry" were a copy of that at home. It had not only its "princes" and its "elders," but its "prophets" and its "diviners," who encouraged the same false hopes as those in Judah (comp. Jeremiah 27:9 ; Jeremiah 28:2 ). Your dreams which ye caused to be dreamed ; or, which ye cause yourselves to dream (comp. Jeremiah 27:9 ).