Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
Because ye have said - referring not to the preceding words, but to Jeremiah 29:10-11, 'Yahweh saith this to you'
(i:e., the prophecy of the continuance of the captivity seventy years), "because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon," - namely, foretelling our speedy deliverance (this their prophecy is supposed, not expressed; accordingly, Jeremiah 29:16-19 contradicts this false hope again, Jeremiah 29:8-9; Jeremiah 29:21). He, in this 15th verse, turns his address from the godly (Jeremiah 29:12-14) to the ungodly listeners to false prophets.