Jeremiah 23:20
And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
21I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:29For I know that after my death ye will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you + 31:29 Gr. at the end of the days.in the latter days, because ye will do evil before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of your hands.
2 Kings 23:26Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great anger, wherewith he was wroth in his anger against Juda, + 23:26 Gr. upon or against.because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses provoked him.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.
Isaiah 55:11so shall my word be, whatever shall proceed out of my mouth, it shall by no means turn back, until all the things which I willed shall have been accomplished; and I will make thy ways prosperous, and will effect my commands.
Ezekiel 21:10and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.
Zechariah 1:6But do ye receive my words and mine ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us.
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 →