Jeremiah 27:10

for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out and ye should perish.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

In Context

9But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon;

11But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.'

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Cross References

Jeremiah 23:25I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in My name, saying: 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

Jeremiah 28:16'Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken perversion against the LORD.'

Lamentations 2:14Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction.

Zechariah 10:2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreams speak falsely, they comfort in vain; therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 27:2-12

Nebuchadnezzar's Victories Predicted. ( b. c. 597.) 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; 4 And command them to… Read the whole commentary →

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