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Jeremiah 23:31

Verse 31 of 40. The 23rd of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

27They 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.

28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says the LORD.

29“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

30“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.

31Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’

32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says the LORD, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says the LORD.

33“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says the LORD.’

34As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ I will even punish that man and his household.

35You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD said?’

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.