Jeremiah 29:32

therefore thus saith the Lord For the construction see note on Jeremiah 29:24.

he shall not … the good But Shemaiah could no more than Jeremiah himself hope to see the far distant day of return. Thus the LXX reading is to be preferred, "there shall not be a man of them" (i.e. of his descendants) "in the midst of you to see the good."

because he … Lord absent from LXX as in Jeremiah 28:16 (see note there). Here they have instead the words "They shall not see," originally no doubt a marg gloss on the "behold" earlier in the v.