Jeremiah 27:15

15 I didn't send them, declares the LORD. They prophesy lies in my name. So I will scatter you, and you and the prophets will die."

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 in wars, famines, and plagues? The LORD has threatened the nations that don't serve the king of Babylon.

14 Don't listen to the prophets who tell you that you'll never serve the king of Babylon. They are prophesying lies to you.

15 I didn't send them, declares the LORD. They prophesy lies in my name. So I will scatter you, and you and the prophets will die."

16 I also spoke this message to the priests and all the people. "This is what the LORD said to me: Don't listen to the prophets who tell you that the utensils of the LORD's temple will be brought back from Babylon soon. They are prophesying lies to you.

17 Don't listen to them. Instead, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city be turned into rubble?