Jeremiah 23:32
Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
31Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,
Isaiah 3:12As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.
Jeremiah 23:13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal, and deceived my people Israel.
Jeremiah 23:21I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 27:14Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie.
Jeremiah 29:21Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son of Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in my name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your eyes.
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 →