Jeremiah 23:32

23:32 I, the Lord, affirm 1  that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. 2  I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. 3  I, the Lord, affirm it!” 4 

Jeremiah 29:8

29:8 “For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all 5  says, ‘Do not let the prophets or those among you who claim to be able to predict the future by divination 6  deceive you. And do not pay any attention to the dreams that you are encouraging them to dream.

1 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

2 tn Heb “with their lies and their recklessness.” This is an example of hendiadys where two nouns (in this case a concrete and an abstract one) are joined by “and” but one is intended to be the adjectival modifier of the other.

3 sn In the light of what has been said this is a rhetorical understatement; they are not only “not helping,” they are leading them to their doom (cf. vv. 19-22). This figure of speech is known as litotes.

4 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

5 tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.”

sn See study notes on 2:19 and 7:3 for the explanation of this title.

6 sn See the study notes on 27:9 for this term.