Jeremiah 23:33-40

False Prophecy

33 “When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ say to them, ‘What message? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
34 If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, ‘This is a message from the LORD,’ I will punish them and their household.
35 This is what each of you keeps saying to your friends and other Israelites: ‘What is the LORD’s answer?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
36 But you must not mention ‘a message from the LORD’ again, because each one’s word becomes their own message. So you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.
37 This is what you keep saying to a prophet: ‘What is the LORD’s answer to you?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
38 Although you claim, ‘This is a message from the LORD,’ this is what the LORD says: You used the words, ‘This is a message from the LORD,’ even though I told you that you must not claim, ‘This is a message from the LORD.’
39 Therefore, I will surely forget you and cast you out of my presence along with the city I gave to you and your ancestors.
40 I will bring on you everlasting disgrace—everlasting shame that will not be forgotten.”

Cross References 9

  • 1. Malachi 1:1
  • 2. ver 39; S 2 Kings 21:14
  • 3. Lamentations 2:14
  • 4. Zechariah 13:3
  • 5. Jeremiah 33:3; Jeremiah 42:4
  • 6. Galatians 1:7-8; 2 Peter 3:16
  • 7. S Joshua 3:10
  • 8. S Jeremiah 7:15
  • 9. S Jeremiah 20:11; Ezekiel 5:14-15
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