Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 42:20

20 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 to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it .

Or you have used deceit, either towards God, dealing falsly with him, calling him to be a witness to your sincerity in what you never intended any sincerity in, or towards me, sending me to enquire of God for you, and promising to do according to what I should reveal to you from God as his Will, when as you never intended it. Or towards your own Souls, as every sinner doth but deceive his own Soul. You made a pretence of what was not in your heart.

When you sent me to pray Gods direction for you and made me such a firm promise to do whatsoever I should reveal to you from God as his will in this case.

Marginal references: Or, have [illegible: 1 letter]sed deceit agai[illegible: 3 letters] your souls.