Jeremiah 37:19
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New International Version (©2011)
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, 'The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land'?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Where are your prophets now who told you the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?

English Standard Version (©2001)
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land '?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you and this land?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, telling you: 'The king of Babylon won't come against you or against this land'?

NET Bible (©2006)
Where now are the prophets who prophesied to you that the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Where are the prophets who told you that the king of Babylon wouldn't attack you and this land?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Where are now your prophets who prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

American King James Version
Where are now your prophets which prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

American Standard Version
Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and said: The king of Babylon shall not come against you, and against this land?

Darby Bible Translation
And where are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

English Revised Version
Where now are your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

Webster's Bible Translation
Where are now your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

World English Bible
Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

Young's Literal Translation
And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon doth not come in against you, and against this land?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:11-21 There are times when it is the wisdom of good men to retire, to enter into their chambers, and to shut the doors, Isa 26:20. Jeremiah was seized as a deserter, and committed to prison. But it is no new thing for the best friends of the church to be belied, as in the interests of her worst enemies. When thus falsely accused, we may deny the charge, and commit our cause to Him who judges righteously. Jeremiah obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful, and would not, to obtain mercy of man, be unfaithful to God or to his prince; he tells the king the whole truth. When Jeremiah delivered God's message, he spake with boldness; but when he made his own request, he spake submissively. A lion in God's cause must be a lamb in his own. And God gave Jeremiah favour in the eyes of the king. The Lord God can make even the cells of a prison become pastures to his people, and will raise up friends to provide for them, so that in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Where are now your prophets that prophesied unto you,.... Your false prophets, as the Targum; what is become of their prophecies? where is the truth of them, to which general credit has been given? where are they? let them appear and defend themselves, if they can, from the charge of lying, and of being false prophets? or where are they? tacitly suggesting the different circumstances of him and them; he, who was a true prophet, was laid in a prison; they, who were false prophets, were caressed in the palaces of the king and his nobles, and in favour with the people in general:

saying, the king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? gave out that the king of Babylon would never invade the land of Judea, or besiege the city of Jerusalem, which proved false; and still they had the front to say, that when the siege was raised, he would never come again; whereas he was then returned to it, and was now besieging it; so that here were notorious falsehoods delivered out by them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. Where are now your prophets—The event has showed them to be liars; and, as surely as the king of Babylon has come already, notwithstanding their prophecy, so surely shall he return.

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Jeremiah Imprisoned
…18Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, What have I offended against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison? 19Where are now your prophets which prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? 20Therefore hear now, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray you, be accepted before you; that you cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

Deuteronomy 32:37 He will say: "Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,
Deuteronomy 32:38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!
2 Kings 3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." "No," the king of Israel answered, "because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab."
Jeremiah 2:28 Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.
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 28:1 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Jeremiah 28:10 Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it,
Ezekiel 13:2 "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: 'Hear the word of the LORD!
Ezekiel 13:6 Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the LORD has not sent them, they say, "The LORD declares," and expect him to fulfill their words.