Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 10:2

2 For the idols have spoken vanity , and the diviners have seen a lie , and have told false dreams : they comfort in vain : therefore they went their away as a flock, they were troubled , because there was no shepherd .

Images which before the Captivity they venerated, and at them consulted their Idols about plenty, or barrenness, and concerning future events, Iudg. 10.14. Isa. 19.3.

Their predictions were vain, nothing of certainty in them.

Southsayers, and consulters with familiar Spirits.

Foretold good, when all issued in evil, no good came.

They pretended a revelation from Heaven, but 'twas a dream of their own head, or a cheat put on them by the Father of lies.

Their lies for the present comfort the deceived, but the vanity of these comforts soon appears in the disappointment which followeth.

Either they that consulted, or those who sent them, indeed almost all the Iews were thus foolish in consulting, and believing these Lyars, and so confounded at last, fell into all the misery they thought to escape.

They went into Captivity into Babylon,

miserably oppressed and afflicted,

without guide, or protection: without Ecclesiastical or Civil Governours, that would faithfully do their duty, and this was one reason that they were so afflicted and captivated.

Marginal references: Jer. 10.8. Hab. 2.18.; Heb. teraphims.; Or, answered that, &c.