Jeremiah 29:19

“Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, etc.] Which were spoken to them by the prophets; not hearkening to them, but despising them, were the same as not hearkening to him, and despising him; contempt of God, and his word, was the cause of their ruin; (see <143615>2 Chronicles 36:15,16); which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets; such as Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and others: rising up early, and sending [them]; which denotes the frequency of their mission; the diligent care of God towards them; and his earnest solicitude for their welfare; and the plenty of means they were favoured with; all which were aggravations of their sin: but ye would not hear,…”

“These verses are not in the Septuagint. But the text of the Septuagint is here throughout so brief and confused as to be explicable only on the supposition, that it represents what was left behind in Egypt when Jeremiah died, copied probably with extreme haste, and with no opportunity of careful collation afterward. On the other hand the Hebrew text represents no hurried transcript, but the original manuscript, and is especially trustworthy in the case of these letters sent to Babylon (see also Jeremiah 51:0), because the originals of them would be available for collation with the text preserved by Jeremiah himself. The verses were probably intended to allay excitement in Babylon consequent…”

“Jer 6:19, Jer 7:13, Jer 7:24-26, Jer 25:3-7, Jer 26:5, Jer 32:33, Jer 34:17, Jer 35:14-16, Jer 44:4, Jer 44:5; Zac 1:4-6, Zac 7:11-13; Heb 12:25 Jeremiah 29:20”