Then said I, Ah, Lord God!.... Being grieved at heart for the people, because he was forbid to pray for them, and because the Lord had resolved on the ruin of them; and the rather he pitied them, because they were deceived by the false prophets, and therefore he tries to excuse them, and lay the blame upon them, as follows:behold, the prophets say unto them; that is, the false prophets, as the Targum; Jeremiah does not call them so, being willing to make the best of it:ye shall not see the sword; the sword of the enemy drawn in your country, or fall by it:neither shall ye have famine; by which it appears, that it was not yet come, only foretold; the contrary to which is here affirmed:but I will give you assured peace in this place; so they spoke as from the Lord, and in his name, with all the confidence imaginable; assuring the people that they should have peace and prosperity, and be in the utmost safety in Jerusalem; and that neither famine nor sword would come to them, nor in the least hurt them.
In the Hebrew text it is, "peace of truth" ; that is, true peace, firm and lasting. The Septuagint render it "peace and truth"; see Isa 39:8.