Jeremiah 29:23

folly The Hebrew denotes more than this, viz. "a state of mind or an action, marked by utter disregard of moral or spiritual feeling." Dr. who illustrates the kind of immorality here referred to in the word by its use in Genesis 34:7; 2 Samuel 13:12. See further in his Parallel Psalter,p. 457. The punishment inflicted, while really the penalty for transgressions against Jehovah, was doubtless ostensibly for breaches of the religious or civil law of Babylon.

falsely not in LXX, and probably introduced from Jeremiah 29:21.

he that knoweth, and am witness The Hebrew as it stands is awkward. Probably "he that knoweth" (absent from LXX) is a gloss.