For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Ye dissembled in your hearts - rather, 'ye have used deceit against your (own) souls.' It is not God, but yourselves, whom ye deceive, to your own ruin, by your dissimulation (Galatians 6:7). (Calvin) But the words following accord best with the English version, ye have dissembled in your hearts (Jeremiah 42:3, note) toward me when ye sent me to consult God for you.