Jeremiah 23:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which everyone tells to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They plan to make My people forget My name through their dreams, which they tell to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    that think{H2803} to cause my people{H5971} to forget{H7911} my name{H8034} by their dreams{H2472} which they tell{H5608} every man{H376} to his neighbor,{H7453} as their fathers{H1} forgat{H7911} my name{H8034} for Baal.{H1168}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Which think{H2803}{(H8802)} to cause my people{H5971} to forget{H7911}{(H8687)} my name{H8034} by their dreams{H2472} which they tell{H5608}{(H8762)} every man{H376} to his neighbour{H7453}, as their fathers{H1} have forgotten{H7911}{(H8804)} my name{H8034} for Baal{H1168}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Whose purpose is, (with the dreames that euery one tell) to make my people forget my name, as their fore fathers dyd, whe Baal

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thinke they to cause my people to forget my Name by their dreames, which they tell euery man to his neyghbour, as their forefathers haue forgotten my Name for Baal?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Whose purpose is with the dreames that euery one tell, to make my people forget my name, as their fathers dyd when Baal came vp.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Who are devising to cause My people To forget My name by their dreams, That they recount each to his neighbour, As their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    that think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    that think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    How long will they go on plotting to make my people forget who I am through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 3:7 : 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
  • Judg 8:33-34 : 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god. 34 And the children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:
  • Judg 10:6 : 6 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and did not serve Him.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners, who are among you, deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
  • Acts 13:8 : 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
  • 2 Tim 2:17-18 : 17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18 who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
  • 2 Tim 3:6-8 : 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disqualified concerning the faith.
  • Deut 13:1-5 : 1 If there arises among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them; 3 You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God tests you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and hold fast to him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to push you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.

  • Jer 23:25-26
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    25 I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

    26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

  • Jer 29:8-9
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    8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners, who are among you, deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

    9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.

  • Jer 23:32-33
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    32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.

    33 And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, 'What is the burden of the LORD?' you shall then say to them, 'What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.'

  • 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err.

  • Jer 27:9-10
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    9 Therefore do not listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

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

  • Jer 27:14-16
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    14 Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets that speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

    15 For I have not sent them, says the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.

    16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD; Do not listen to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

  • Jer 18:15-16
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    15 Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not established;

    16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

  • 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

  • Jer 23:16-17
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    16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

    17 They still say to those who despise me, 'The LORD has said, You shall have peace.' And they say to everyone who walks after the imagination of his own heart, 'No evil shall come upon you.'

  • 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie and told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore they went their way as a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.

  • 23 And it shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

  • 6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

  • Jer 23:39-40
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    39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence.

    40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

  • 8 The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

  • 14 Then the LORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I have not sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.'

  • 11 Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

  • 21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

  • 27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

  • Ezek 13:6-7
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    6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, saying, 'The LORD says'; but the LORD has not sent them. And they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

    7 Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, when you say, 'The LORD says it,' although I have not spoken?

  • 30 Therefore behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

  • 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • 5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them make them to wail, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

  • 35 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you shall also bear your lewdness and your harlotries.

  • 14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?

  • 25 This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

  • 20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.

  • 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

  • 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also various vanities; but fear God.

  • 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

  • 6 Do not prophesy, they say to those who prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they may not take shame.

  • 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

  • 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • 2 As they were called, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baal, and burned incense to carved images.

  • 19 Will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people who hear your lies?

  • 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

  • 13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.