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Jeremiah 23:27

Verse 27 of 40. The 23rd of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

23Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?

24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

25I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

27Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.

29Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

31Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

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Jeremiah 23:27 in the World English Bible

They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.
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Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:27

Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly. The prophet had complained to God of those false prophets (ch. xiv. 13), and had often foretold that they should be involved in the common ruin; but here they have woes of their own.

Read Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:9–32: Guilt of False Prophets. (b. c. 600.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.