Jeremiah 23:31

Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, That take their tongues and utter oracles.

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In The King James Version

Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

In Context

30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, That steal my words one from another.

32Behold, I am against the prophets of false dreams, saith Jehovah, Who tell them, and cause my people to err By their lies and their arrogance. I have not sent them, nor commanded them, And they shall not profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 23:17To them that despise me they say continually, “Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace”; And to every one that walketh after the perverseness of his heart, “No evil shall come upon you.”

Jeremiah 28:17And Hananiah the prophet died in the same year, in the seventh month.

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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