◄ Jeremiah 23:34 ►
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Good News Translation
If any of my people or a prophet or a priest even uses the words 'the LORD's burden,' I will punish them and their families.

New Revised Standard Version
And as for the prophet, priest, or the people who say, “The burden of the LORD,” I will punish them and their households.

Contemporary English Version
If any of you say, "Here is news from the LORD," I will punish you and your families, even if you are a prophet or a priest.

New American Bible
If a prophet or a priest or anyone else mentions “the burden of the LORD,” I will punish that man and his household.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.

punish.

Jeremiah 23:2 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.

Context
False Oracles
33If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord. 34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.35Thus shall you say every one to his neighbour, and to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?…
Cross References
Jeremiah 36:31
And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for their iniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they have not heard.

Lamentations 2:14
Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.

Nahum 1:1
The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite.

Zechariah 13:3
And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any more, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall thrust him through, when he shall prophesy.

Jeremiah 23:33
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