Jeremiah 23:28

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

In Context

27Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

29Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:16But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord.

Isaiah 21:10O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.

Matthew 24:45Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season.

1 Corinthians 3:12Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

2 Corinthians 2:17For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:10-33

Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 600.) 9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord , and because of the words of his holiness. 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their… Read the whole commentary →

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