Jeremiah Chapter 29 verse 15 Holy Bible
Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
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For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon.
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If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
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Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
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Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
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`Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 15-23. - Jeremiah's denunciation of two leading false prophets at Babylon, with a digression on the fate of Zedekiah and Jerusalem. Some eminent critics maintain that vers. 16-20 are an interpolation, and this view is certainly supported By the omission of these verses in the Septuagint. It must also in fairness be admitted that the natural connection of ver. 15 is with ver. 21, not with ver. 16. But it does not follow that vers. 16-20 are an arbitrary interpolation. They may be regarded either as a digression in the original letter, or as inserted by an after-thought when the substance of the letter was brought into its present form.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets . . .--The words point to the boast of some of the exiles, that they, too, had the guidance of prophets whom, as in Jeremiah 29:20; Jeremiah 29:24, they were inclined to follow in preference to Jeremiah. In answer to that boast, he emphasises the contrast between the exiles in whom the prophet sees the future hope of his nation and the worthless king (Zedekiah) and people who had been left in Jerusalem, and for whom he foretells yet sharper sufferings. The symbolism of the "vile figs" is reproduced in Jeremiah 29:17 from Jeremiah 24:1-2. The word for "vile" is, however, not the same as in that passage, and has the stronger force of "horrible" or "loathsome."
