Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 2:14

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee , and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity ; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment .

Not the Lords Prophets in thee, but those Prophets to whom you chose rather to hearken and whom you believed rather than me, and others sent by God to reveal his Will unto you, came and told you idle and vain stories, that those who were carried into Captivity, should after two years return, &c.

And by telling you such smooth and pleasant things tickled your humours instead of discovering your Sins, which were bringing these judgments upon you, whereas they ought to have dealt freely, and faithfully with you, and have made you sensible of your sins, and this might have prevented your miserable Captivity.

But they rather spent their breath in telling you false stories to incourage you in your sinful courses, and so proved to you the causes of your Banishment; or else they told you false stories which they pretended to be the causes of the Captivity of your brethren, in the mean time concealing the true causes, and suffering you to run on in the same errors till you came to be more miserable than those that went into Captivity before you.

Marginal references: Jer. 2.8. & 5.21. & 14.14. & 23.16. & 27.14. & 29.8, 9. Ezek. 13.2.