Jeremiah 23:16-40 ▼

16 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you?. They make you? vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not from the mouth of YHWH.

17 They keep saying to those despising Me, ‘YHWH has said you? will have peace.’ And as for everyone walking in the stubbornness of his heart, they say, ‘Evil shall not come upon you?.’

18 But who has stood in the counsel of YHWH, and has perceived and has heard His word? Who has paid attention to His word, and has heard it?

19 Behold, the tempest of YHWH in fury goes forth, and a whirling tempest swirling down upon on the head of the wicked.

20 The nose of YHWH will not turn back until He has done it, and until He has performed the thoughts of His heart; in the following days you? will understand it clearly.

21 I have not sent these prophets, and they have run; I have not spoken to them, and they have prophesied.

22 But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from the evil of their way and from the evil of their deeds.”

23 “Am I a God nearby,” a declaration of YHWH, “And not a God far away?”

24 “Can a man hide himself in the hidden places, and I shall not see him?” A declaration of YHWH. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” A declaration of YHWH.

25 “I have heard what the prophets say, those prophesying in My name deception, saying, ‘I have dreamed! I have dreamed!

26 How long will it be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? And indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

27 who are devising to make My people forget My name by their dreams that tell, a man to his neighbor, just as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.

28 The prophet with whom is a dream, let him recount the dream, and with whom is My word, let him speak My word in faithfulness. What is the chaff to the wheat?” A declaration of YHWH.

29 “Is it not thus, My word is like the fire,” a declaration of YHWH, “And like a hammer that dashes a rock?”

30 “Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets,” a declaration of YHWH, “Those stealing My words, each man from his neighbor.”

31 “Behold, I am against the prophets—” says YHWH—“Those taking their own tongues, and prophesying, ‘His utterance.”

32 “Behold, I am against those prophesying False dreams,” a declaration of YHWH, “And they recount them and lead astray My people by their lies and by their recklessness; and I did not send them and did not command them, and there shall not be profit for this people,” a declaration of YHWH.

33 “And when this people, or the prophet, or the priest asks you, ‘Saying, What is the oracle of YHWH?’ Then you shall say to them ‘What oracle? And I will forsake you?, a declaration of YHWH.’

34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The oracle of YHWH,’ even I will visit punishment upon that man and upon his house.

35 Thus you? shall say, everyone to his neighbor and everyone to his brother, ‘What has YHWH answered, and what has YHWH spoken?’

36 And the burden of YHWH you shall not mention anymore, for each man’s word will be the burden, and you? have overturned the words of the living God, YHWH of Hosts, our God.

37 Thus you shall say to the prophet: ‘What has YHWH answered you, and what has YHWH spoken?’

38 And if you? say, ‘The burden of YHWH,’ therefore thus says YHWH: Because you? say ‘This word is the burden of YHWH,’ and I sent to you? saying, you shall not say, ‘The burden of YHWH,’

39 therefore, behold, I will also utterly forget you?, and I will cast away you? and the city that I gave to you? and to your? fathers—from before My face,

40 and I will bring upon you? reproach forever and shame forever that will never be forgotten.