Jeremiah 23:31
Good News Translation
I am also against those prophets who speak their own words and claim they came from me.

New Revised Standard Version
See, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their own tongues and say, “Says the LORD.”

New American Bible
Yes, I am against the prophets—oracle of the LORD—those who compose their own speeches and call them oracles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.

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Isaiah 30:10 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.

Micah 2:11 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

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Jeremiah 23:17 They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own heart, they have said: No evil shall come upon you.

2 Chronicles 18:5,10-12,19-21 So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver into the king's hand. . . .

Context
Lying Prophets
30Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbour. 31Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.32Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 23:30
Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Jeremiah 23:32
Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:30
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