Jeremiah 28:9
Good News Translation
But a prophet who predicts peace can only be recognized as a prophet whom the LORD has truly sent when that prophet's predictions come true."

New Revised Standard Version
As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes true, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet.”

Contemporary English Version
Now you are saying we will have peace. We will just have to wait and see if that is really what the LORD has said.

New American Bible
But the prophet who prophesies peace is recognized as the prophet whom the LORD has truly sent only when his word comes to pass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth.

which.

Jeremiah 4:10 And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?

Jeremiah 6:14 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.

Jeremiah 8:11 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace.

Jeremiah 14:13 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them: You shall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you, but he will give you true peace in this place.

Ezekiel 13:10,16 Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt without straw. . . .

then.

Deuteronomy 18:22 Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.

Ezekiel 13:10-16 Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt without straw. . . .

Context
Hananiah's False Prophecy
8The prophets that have been before me, and before thee from the beginning, and have prophesied concerning many countries, and concerning great kingdoms, of war, and of affliction, and of famine. 9The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth.10And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and broke it.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:22
Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.

Ezekiel 33:33
And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, for behold it is coming, then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

Jeremiah 28:8
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