Jeremiah 23:21

I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

In Context

20And 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.

22But if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had hearkened to my words, then would they have turned my people from their evil practices.

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:8And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, Behold, I am here, send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people,

Jeremiah 23:32Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them truly, and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.

Jeremiah 28:15The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.

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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