Jeremiah 5:31
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31 (A)the prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule at their direction;
(B)my people love to have it so,
but what will you do when the end comes?
Isaiah 58:1
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True and False Fasting
58 “Cry aloud; do not hold back;
(A)lift up your voice like a trumpet;
(B)declare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Ezekiel 22:28
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28 And (A)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (B)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
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Ezekiel 22:25
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25 (A)The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is (B)like a roaring lion (C)tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
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Micah 3:5-7
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5 Thus says the Lord concerning (A)the prophets
who lead my people astray,
(B)who cry “Peace”
when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
who puts nothing into their mouths.
6 Therefore (C)it shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination.
(D)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them;
7 (E)the seers shall be disgraced,
and the diviners put to shame;
(F)they shall all cover their lips,
for (G)there is no answer from God.
Jeremiah 8:10-11
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10 (A)Therefore I will give their wives to others
and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
everyone (B)is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.
11 They have healed (C)the wound of my people lightly,
saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 2:8
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8 The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
(A)Those who handle the law did not know me;
(B)the shepherds[a] transgressed against me;
(C)the prophets prophesied by Baal
and went after (D)things that do not profit.
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- Jeremiah 2:8 Or rulers
2 Peter 2:1-3
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False Prophets and Teachers
2 But (A)false prophets also arose among the people, (B)just as there will be false teachers among you, who will (C)secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master (D)who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth (E)will be blasphemed. 3 And (F)in their greed they will exploit you (G)with false words. (H)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
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Zephaniah 3:4
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4 (A)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(B)her priests (C)profane what is holy;
they do violence to the law.
Micah 2:11
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11 If a man should go about and (A)utter wind and lies,
saying, “I will preach to you (B)of wine and strong drink,”
he would be the preacher for this people!
Ezekiel 13:22
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22 (A)Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and (B)you have encouraged the wicked, that (C)he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,
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Ezekiel 13:2-16
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2 (A)“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those (B)who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the Lord!’ 3 Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. 5 (C)You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the Lord. 6 (D)They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ (E)when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. 7 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, (F)whenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”
8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, (G)I am against you, declares the Lord God. 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, (H)nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, (I)nor shall they enter the land of Israel. (J)And you shall know that I am the Lord God. 10 Precisely because they have misled my people, (K)saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, (L)these prophets smear it with whitewash,[a] 11 say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! (M)There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out. 12 And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’ 13 Therefore thus says the Lord God: (N)I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, (O)and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. 14 And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, (P)and you shall know that I am the Lord. 15 Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it, 16 the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem (Q)and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 13:10 Or plaster; also verses 11, 14, 15
Jeremiah 37:19
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19 (A)Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?
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Jeremiah 29:8-9
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8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)Do not let your prophets and (B)your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,[a] 9 for (C)it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; (D)I did not send them, declares the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 29:8 Hebrew your dreams, which you cause to dream
Jeremiah 28:15
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15 And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, (A)the Lord has not sent you, (B)and you have made this people trust in a lie.
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Jeremiah 27:14-16
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14 (A)Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ (B)for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. 15 I have not sent them, declares the Lord, but (C)they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.”
16 Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: (D)Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, (E)‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ (F)for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.
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Jeremiah 27:9-10
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9 So (A)do not listen to your (B)prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your (C)fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 (D)For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
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Jeremiah 23:36
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36 But ‘the burden of the Lord’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and (A)you pervert the words of (B)the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
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Jeremiah 23:31-34
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31 Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and (A)lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when (B)I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.
33 (C)“When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden,[a] and (D)I will cast you off, declares the Lord.’ 34 And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ (E)I will punish that man and his household.
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- Jeremiah 23:33 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew What burden?
Jeremiah 23:25-29
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25 I have heard what the prophets have said (A)who prophesy lies in my name, saying, (B)‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long shall there be lies in the heart of (C)the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, 27 who think to make my people forget my name (D)by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their (E)fathers forgot my name for Baal? 28 (F)Let the prophet who has a dream (G)tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. (H)What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord. 29 (I)Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and (J)like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
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Jeremiah 23:22
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22 (A)But if they had stood in my council,
then they would have proclaimed my words to my people,
(B)and they would have turned them from their evil way,
and (C)from the evil of their deeds.
Jeremiah 23:11-17
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11 (A)“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even (B)in my house I have found their evil,
declares the Lord.
12 (C)Therefore their way shall be to them
like slippery paths (D)in the darkness,
into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
(E)in the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.
13 In the prophets of (F)Samaria
(G)I saw an unsavory thing:
(H)they prophesied by Baal
(I)and led my people Israel astray.
14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
(J)they commit adultery and walk in lies;
(K)they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
(L)all of them have become like Sodom to me,
(M)and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
(N)“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
(O)and give them (P)poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, (Q)filling you with vain hopes. (R)They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. 17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, (S)‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who (T)stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, (U)‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”
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Jeremiah 14:13-15
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Lying Prophets
13 Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets (A)say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” 14 And the Lord said to me: “The (B)prophets are prophesying lies in my name. (C)I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, (D)worthless divination, and (E)the deceit of their own minds. 15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although (F)I did not send them, and who say, (G)‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: (H)By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.
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Jeremiah 6:13-14
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