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Jer_29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
Ver. 8. Let not your prophets and your diviners.] Your deceivers, indeed, which were also in Babylon as well as at Jerusalem; for all places are full of them, aud so is hell too. But "beware of these dogs, beware of evil workers"; {Php_3:2} three of them, the most active, no doubt, are here noted and noticed {Jer_29:21; Jer_29:23} with a charge in this text, Ne committitote ut decipiant vos; see that they deceive you not. The body should be kept, say physicians, in habitu athletico, in a vigorous and healthy temper, able to oppose infections. Think the same of the soul.
Neither hearken to your dreams.] "Yours," because you itch after them, listen to them, pay dearly for them.