thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity;
God raised up prophets in Babylon extending His agency far beyond Judah's bounds. Yet these false prophets contradicted the true word of judgment, promising swift end to captivity while the exiles would suffer sword, famine, and pestilence until all Judah was destroyed for refusing His servants the true prophets.
AI summary
Commenting on Jeremiah 29:15-20
We now perceive for what purpose the Prophet, after having addressed the captives, turned his discourse to King Zedekiah and to the Jews, who as yet remained at home or in their own country; it was, that the captives might hence know how great was their madness to promise to themselves a return, after having been driven to remote lands, when final ruin was nigh...
people . . . in this city . . . not gone forth--So far from your returning to Jerusalem soon, even your brethren still left dwelling there shall themselves also be cast into exile. He mentions "the throne of David," lest they should think that, because David's kingdom was to be perpetual, no severe, though temporary, chastisements could interpose (Psa 89:29-36).