Jeremiah 27:10
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New International Version (©2011)
They prophesy lies to you that will only serve to remove you far from your lands; I will banish you and you will perish.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They are all liars, and their lies will lead to your being driven out of your land. I will drive you out and send you far away to die.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
for they prophesy a lie to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They're prophesying a lie to you in order to remove you far away from your land. I'll drive you out and you will perish.

NET Bible (©2006)
Do not listen to them, because their prophecies are lies. Listening to them will only cause you to be taken far away from your native land. I will drive you out of your country and you will die in exile.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They are prophesying lies to you. They will cause you to be taken far from your lands. I'll scatter you, and you will die.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and east you out, and to make you perish.

Darby Bible Translation
For they prophesy falsehood unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

English Revised Version
for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out and ye should perish.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
For falsehood they are prophesying to you, so as to remove you far from off your ground, and I have driven you out, and ye have perished.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

27:1-11 Jeremiah is to prepare a sign that all the neighbouring countries would be made subject to the king of Babylon. God asserts his right to dispose of kingdoms as he pleases. Whatever any have of the good things of this world, it is what God sees fit to give; we should therefore be content. The things of this world are not the best things, for the Lord often gives the largest share to bad men. Dominion is not founded in grace. Those who will not serve the God who made them, shall justly be made to serve their enemies that seek to ruin them. Jeremiah urges them to prevent their destruction, by submission. A meek spirit, by quiet submission to the hardest turns of providence, makes the best of what is bad. Many persons may escape destroying providences, by submitting to humbling providences. It is better to take up a light cross in our way, than to pull a heavier on our own heads. The poor in spirit, the meek and humble, enjoy comfort, and avoid many miseries to which the high-spirited are exposed. It must, in all cases, be our interest to obey God's will.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - To remove you far; or, more distinctly, that I may remove you far. So Isaiah 6:12, "(Until) Jehovah have removed men afar off." The deportation policy of the Assyrians and Babylonians was overruled by God for his own deep purposes.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they prophesy a lie unto you,.... That which was vain and false, and proved so; though they might not know it was when delivered:

to remove you far from your land; not that they designed it by their prophecies, but so it was eventually; for, standing it out against Nebuchadnezzar, encouraged by the lies and dreams of their prophets, he, in process of time, took them, and carried them captive into Babylon; whereas, had they surrendered at once, they might have continued in their own land, paying a tax or tribute to the king of Babylon:

and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish; drive them out of their own land, and so perish in a foreign land: God is said to do that which his servant or instrument did, being provoked by the sin and disobedience of the people, hearkening to their lying prophets, and not to him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. to remove you—expressing the event which would result. The very thing they profess by their enchantments to avert, they are by them bringing on you. Better to submit to Nebuchadnezzar, and remain in your land, than to rebel, and be removed from it.

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The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
…9Therefore listen not you to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: 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. 11But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, said the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. …

Exodus 22:18 "Do not allow a sorceress to live.
Deuteronomy 18:10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
Jeremiah 8:19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"
Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.
Jeremiah 23:16 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:25 "I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, 'I had a dream! I had a dream!'
Jeremiah 27:14 Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon,' for they are prophesying lies to you.
Jeremiah 27:15 I have not sent them,' declares the LORD. 'They are prophesying lies in my name. Therefore, I will banish you and you will perish, both you and the prophets who prophesy to you.'"
Jeremiah 27:16 Then I said to the priests and all these people, "This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the prophets who say, 'Very soon now the articles from the LORD's house will be brought back from Babylon.' They are prophesying lies to you.
Jeremiah 28:11 and he said before all the people, "This is what the LORD says: 'In the same way I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years.'" At this, the prophet Jeremiah went on his way.
Jeremiah 32:31 From the day it was built until now, this city has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove it from my sight.
Daniel 4:7 When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners came, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.