Jeremiah 27:15

15 I haven't sent these prophets, declares the LORD; they are prophesying falsely in my name. If you listen to them, I will drive you out, and you will perish, both you and your prophets!

Jeremiah 27:15 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 27:15

For I have not sent them, saith the Lord
See ( Jeremiah 23:21 ) ; yet they prophesy a lie in my name; to deliver out a lie was a very wicked thing, sinful in them, and fatal to others; but to make use of the name of the Lord, and cover it with that, and back it with his authority, was much more wicked and abominable: that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish;
being driven out of their own land, perish in another; which, though the false prophets did not intend by their prophesying, yet such would be, and was, the issue of it: ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you;
for it would end in the ruin and destruction of them both; both of the false prophets, as the Targum here again calls them, and those that listened to their prophecies; both would fall into the same ditch.

Jeremiah 27:15 In-Context

13 Why should you and your people die by sword, famine, and disease, as the LORD pronounced against any nation that won't serve the king of Babylon?

14 Pay no attention to the words of the prophets who encourage you not to serve the king of Babylon, for they are lying to you.

15 I haven't sent these prophets, declares the LORD; they are prophesying falsely in my name. If you listen to them, I will drive you out, and you will perish, both you and your prophets!

16 Then I spoke to the priests and all this people: This is what the LORD says: Don't listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you, "In a short while, the temple equipment will be brought back from Babylon." They are prophesying a lie to you.

17 Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Otherwise, this city will be reduced to ruin.