Jeremiah 23:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, 'He says.'

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  • Jer 23:17 : 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.'
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
  • 2 Chr 18:5 : 5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain? And they said, Go up, for God will deliver it into the king's hand.
  • 2 Chr 18:10-12 : 10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made horns of iron, and said, Thus says the LORD, With these you shall push Syria until they be destroyed. 11 And all the prophets prophesied the same, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the LORD will deliver it into the king's hand. 12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one accord; let your word, I pray you, be like one of theirs, and speak good.
  • 2 Chr 18:19-21 : 19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke saying in this manner, and another saying in that manner. 20 Then a spirit came forward, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said to him, How? 21 And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, You shall entice him, and you shall also prevail; go out, and do so.
  • Isa 30:10 : 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:

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  • Jer 23:29-30
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    29Is not my word like a fire? says the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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

  • Jer 23:32
    83%

    32Behold, 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.

  • Mic 3:5
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    5Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

  • Jer 23:15-16
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    15Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone forth into all the land.

    16Thus 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.

  • Jer 14:14-15
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    14Then 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.'

    15Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I have not sent them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land'—by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

  • Jer 27:14-16
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    14Therefore 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.

    15For 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.

    16Also 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.

  • Ezek 13:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts, 'Hear the word of the LORD.'

    3Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

  • Ezek 13:6-9
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    6They 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.

    7Have 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?

    8Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken vanity and seen lies, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.

    9My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of my people, nor shall they be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 29:9
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    9For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.

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

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

  • Ezek 13:16
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    16This is concerning the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and see visions of peace for her, when there is no peace, says the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 5:13-14
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    13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

    14Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

  • Jer 23:11
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    11For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.

  • Jer 23:21
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    21I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

  • Jer 23:1
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    1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.

  • Ezek 34:10
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    10Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

  • Ezek 14:9
    72%

    9And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

  • Jer 28:15
    72%

    15Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

  • Ezek 22:28
    71%

    28And 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.

  • Jer 23:34
    71%

    34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people who shall say, 'The burden of the LORD,' I will even punish that man and his house.

  • Jer 27:10
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    10For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

  • 2 Kgs 21:10
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    10And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

  • Isa 30:10
    71%

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

  • Jer 23:13
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    13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err.

  • Jer 23:37
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    37Thus you shall say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

  • Deut 18:20-22
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    71%

    20But the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

    21And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?

    22When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 18:22
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    22Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets, and the LORD has declared disaster against you.

  • Mic 3:11
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    11The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • Jer 37:19
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    19Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

  • Jer 23:9
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    9My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

  • Jer 5:31
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    31The 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?

  • Jer 29:23
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    23Because they have done outrageous things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.

  • Mic 2:6
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    6Do not prophesy, they say to those who prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they may not take shame.

  • Ezek 34:1
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    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Nah 2:13
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    13Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.