Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 29:11

11 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end .

This deliverance will not depend upon your Merits, but upon my own Mercy▪ and kind thoughts and purposes I have for the seed of Abraham my servant and I am resolved in my own thoughts what to do. I intend not the blotting out of the name of Isr[illegible: 1 letter]e[illegible: 1 letter] from the Earth▪ but to give such an end to their trouble as themselves expect and desire, though not so soon as they may expect it, being deceived by their Prophets. There shall be an end of your Captivity in my time, and that is after you shall have fulfilled seventy years in that Captivity.

Marginal references: Heb. end and expectation.