Rashi on TanakhJeremiah 29

and the queen mother The mother of the king.

mislead An expression of enticing. Cf: “The snake misled me (הִֹשִיאַנִי)” (Gen. 3:13).

And you shall call Me and go In My ways. This is an ellipsis.

concerning the king Zedekiah, who has not been exiled.

as the loathsome figs Heb. הַֹשֹּעָרִים, an expression of, ֹשַעֲרוּרִיָּה, “a disgraceful thing” (Hos. 6:10).

and for a reproach That they will reproach them, and so is every expression of ירפה in Scripture.

whom...burnt an expression of “roasted with fire” (Lev. 2:14).

and they committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors As is explained in Sanhedrin (93a), “So said the Holy One, blessed be He, ‘Lie with my friend.’”

and a witness an expression of testimony (עֵדוּת).

the Nehelamite A place name.

made you a priest He wrote this to Zephaniah.

officers appointees.

the prison כִּפָה

the stocks a tree trunk (ceps in French).

Forasmuch as For you should rebuke him since he sent to us to Babylon saying, “Your exile there is long.”

Forasmuch as like עַל-אֲֹשֶר because of which.