Jeremías 23:30

30 »Por eso yo estoy contra los profetas que se roban mis palabras entre sí —afirma el SEÑOR—.

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 El profeta que tenga un sueño, que lo cuente; pero el que reciba mi palabra, que la proclame con fidelidad. ¿Qué tiene que ver la paja con el grano? —afirma el SEÑOR—.

29 ¿No es acaso mi palabra como fuego, y como martillo que pulveriza la roca? —afirma el SEÑOR—.

30 »Por eso yo estoy contra los profetas que se roban mis palabras entre sí —afirma el SEÑOR—.

31 Yo estoy contra los profetas que sueltan la lengua y hablan por hablar —afirma el SEÑOR—.

32 Yo estoy contra los profetas que cuentan sueños mentirosos, y que al contarlos hacen que mi pueblo se extravíe con sus mentiras y sus presunciones —afirma el SEÑOR—. Yo no los he enviado ni les he dado ninguna orden. Son del todo inútiles para este pueblo —afirma el SEÑOR—.