Jeremiah 23:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

And 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.

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  • Lam 2:14 : 14 Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not revealed your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false burdens and causes of banishment.
  • Zech 13:3 : 3 And it shall come to pass that when anyone continues to prophesy, then his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

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  • Jer 23:30-33
    4 verses
    85%

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

    31Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, 'He says.'

    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.

    33And 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.'

  • Jer 23:35-38
    4 verses
    80%

    35Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, 'What has the LORD answered?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

    36And the burden of the LORD you shall mention no more; for every man's word shall be his burden, for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

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

    38But since you say, 'The burden of the LORD'; therefore, thus says the LORD: Because you say this word, 'The burden of the LORD,' and I have sent to you, saying, 'You shall not say, The burden of the LORD';

  • Ezek 14:8-10
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    8And I will set my face against that man and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

    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.

    10And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him who seeks unto him;

  • Jer 23:11-12
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    74%

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

    12Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

  • Hos 4:9
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    9And it shall be like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.

  • Ezek 12:10
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    10Say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel who are among them.

  • Jer 14:15-16
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    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.

    16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  • 2 Chr 34:24
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    24Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

  • Jer 23:1-2
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    72%

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

    2Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, says the LORD.

  • Jer 36:31
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    31And I will punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they did not listen.

  • Jer 11:3
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    3And say to them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

  • Jer 21:14
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    14But I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, says the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read:

  • Zeph 1:9
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    9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

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

  • Jer 11:21-22
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    70%

    21Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand:

    22Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

  • 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
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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.

  • 2 Chr 34:26
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    26And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which you have heard;

  • Jer 50:18
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    18Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

  • Mic 2:3
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    3Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.

  • Jer 21:11
    69%

    11Concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear the word of the LORD;

  • Zeph 1:17
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    17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like refuse.

  • Zech 5:4
    69%

    4I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.

  • 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.

  • Zeph 3:4
    69%

    4Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Ezek 24:15
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    15Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 19:15
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    15Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

  • Jer 25:29
    69%

    29For, behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be completely unpunished? You shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.

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    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.

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    3And it shall come to pass that when anyone continues to prophesy, then his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

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    6Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

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    46For thus says the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be removed and plundered.

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    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.

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    17Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.