Jeremiah 23:22
But 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.
Updated 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.
23I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.
Cross References
Jeremiah 23:18For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has hearkened, and heard?
Jeremiah 35:15And Jeremiah said to Hananiah, The Lord has not sent thee; and thou hast caused this people to trust in unrighteousness.
Ezekiel 2:7And thou shalt speak my words to them, whether they will hear or fear: for it is a provoking house.
Ezekiel 13:22Because ye have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and that in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live:
Zechariah 1:4And be ye not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they hearkened not, and attended not to hearken to me, saith the Lord.
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 →