Jeremiah 23:34 If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, 'This is a message from the LORD,' I will punish them and their household.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, 'This is a message from the LORD,' I will punish them and their household.

English Standard Version
And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.

New American Standard Bible
"Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, 'The oracle of the LORD,' I will bring punishment upon that man and his household.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
"As for the prophet, priest, or people who say, 'The burden of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household.

International Standard Version
"As for the prophet, the priest, or the people who say, 'I have an oracle of the LORD,' I'll judge that person and his household.

American Standard Version
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

Young's Literal Translation
And the prophet, and the priest, and the people, That saith, The burden of Jehovah, I have seen after that man, and after his house.

Cross References

Jeremiah 36:31
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they listened not.

Lamentations 2:14
Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false burdens and causes of banishment.

Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Zechariah 13:3
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat 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 that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

23:33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now be cast out of his presence. It is a mark of great and daring impiety for men to jest with the words of God. Every idle and profane word will add to the sinner's burden in the day of judgment, when everlasting shame will be his portion.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

34. The burden—Whoever shall in mockery call the Lord's word "a burden," shall be visited (Margin) in wrath.