Jeremías 23:21

21 Yo no envié a esos profetas,pero ellos corrieron;ni siquiera les hablé,pero ellos profetizaron.

Jeremías 23:21 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 23:21

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran
They might be sent of men, and be encouraged by them; but they were not sent of God: it is not only necessary that men employed in religious affairs should have an external call, in an orderly way, from the church of God; but also an internal call from the Lord himself; he qualifying them with gifts, putting his word into their mouths, and inclining their hearts to publish it; see ( Hebrews 5:4 Hebrews 5:5 ) ; but these false prophets had no mission nor commission from the Lord, nor were they sent on any errand, or with any message from him; and yet they ran;
showed great diligence and zeal, and made haste to tell the people what the Lord had never said to them, but what were the warm imaginations of their own heads and hearts; they ran a race or course of ministry, but it was not good, as in ( Jeremiah 23:10 ) . The Targum adds,

``to do evil:''
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied;
wherefore what they prophesied was not the word of the Lord, but what they themselves devised; and so was what was false, as the Targum adds: it is a sad character of men when they speak in public neither by the will of God, nor according to the word of God.

Jeremías 23:21 In-Context

19 El huracán del SEÑOR se ha desatado con furor;un torbellino se cierne amenazantesobre la cabeza de los malvados.
20 La ira del SEÑOR no cesaráhasta que haya realizado por completolos propósitos de su corazón.Al final de los tiemposlo comprenderán con claridad.
21 Yo no envié a esos profetas,pero ellos corrieron;ni siquiera les hablé,pero ellos profetizaron.
22 Si hubieran estado en mi consejo,habrían proclamado mis palabras a mi pueblo;lo habrían hecho volver de su mal caminoy de sus malas acciones.
23 »¿Soy acaso Dios solo de cerca?¿No soy Dios también de lejos?—afirma el SEÑOR—.
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