Jeremías 23:30

30 »Por lo tanto —dice el Señor
—, estoy en contra de estos profetas que se roban mensajes el uno al otro y alegan que provienen de mí.

Jeremías 23:30 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 23:30

Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the
Lord
The false prophets, with whom the Lord was displeased; he set himself against them, and was determined to bring wrath and ruin on them. So the Targum,

``therefore, behold, I send my fury against the false prophets;''

that steal my word,
or "words" ^F17, everyone from his neighbour;
either from the true prophets; beginning their prophecies as they did, with a "thus saith the Lord"; and mingling some words and phrases used by them, the better to ingratiate themselves among the people, and that they might be taken for the prophets of the Lord; as Pelagius, Austin says, used the word "grace", the better to hide his sentiments, and cause them the more easily to be received by the people: or from the false prophets; they privately meeting, and consulting, and agreeing together what they should say to the people, as if they were the words of the Lord: or else from the people themselves; lessening their esteem for the words of the Lord; making them negligent of them and indifferent to them; and causing them to forget what they had heard and received.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (yrbd) "verba mea", Munster, Pagniuus, Montanus, Schmidt.

Jeremías 23:30 In-Context

28 »Que estos falsos profetas cuenten sus sueños,
pero que mis verdaderos mensajeros proclamen todas mis palabras con fidelidad.
¡Hay diferencia entre la paja y el grano!

29 ¿No quema mi palabra como el fuego?
—dice el Señor
—.
¿No es como un martillo poderoso
que hace pedazos una roca?

30 »Por lo tanto —dice el Señor
—, estoy en contra de estos profetas que se roban mensajes el uno al otro y alegan que provienen de mí.

31 Estoy en contra de estos profetas que con mucha labia dicen: “¡Esta profecía es del Señor
!”.

32 Yo estoy contra estos falsos profetas. Sus sueños imaginarios son mentiras descaradas que llevan a mi pueblo a pecar. Yo no los envié ni los nombré, y no tienen ningún mensaje para mi pueblo. ¡Yo, el Señor
, he hablado!