Jeremiah 23:25-32
Lexham English Bible
25 “I have heard what the prophets who prophesy lies[a] have said in my name, saying,[b] ‘I have dreamed! I have dreamed!’ 26 How long[c] will this be in the hearts[d] of the prophets who prophesy lies,[e] even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts,[f] 27 who plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestors[g] forgot my name through Baal? 28 The prophet who has with him a dream, let him tell the dream. But the prophet[h] who has my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. What is straw compared to wheat?”[i] declares[j] Yahweh. 29 “Is not my word like fire?” declares[k] Yahweh, “and like a blacksmith’s hammer that breaks a rock into pieces?
30 “Therefore[l] look, I am against the prophets,” declares[m] Yahweh, “who steal my words each one from his neighbor. 31 Look, I am against the prophets,” declares[n] Yahweh, “who take their tongues[o] and declare as prophets, ‘Yahweh declares.’[p] 32 Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies,”[q] declares[r] Yahweh, “and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all,” declares[s] Yahweh.
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- Jeremiah 23:25 Hebrew “lie”
- Jeremiah 23:25 Literally “to say”
- Jeremiah 23:26 Literally “Until when”
- Jeremiah 23:26 Hebrew “heart”
- Jeremiah 23:26 Hebrew “the lie”
- Jeremiah 23:26 Hebrew “heart”
- Jeremiah 23:27 Or “fathers”
- Jeremiah 23:28 Here the subject is supplied from context in the English translation
- Jeremiah 23:28 Literally “What to the straw in comparison with the wheat”
- Jeremiah 23:28 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 23:29 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 23:30 Literally “To thus”
- Jeremiah 23:30 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 23:31 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 23:31 Hebrew “tongue”
- Jeremiah 23:31 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 23:32 Hebrew “lie”
- Jeremiah 23:32 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 23:32 Literally “a declaration of”
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