How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
Jeremiah 23:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 How long? Will the hearts of the prophets ever turn back—those who prophesy lies and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [How long shall this state of things continue?] How long yet shall it be in the minds of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even the prophets of the deceit of their own hearts, American Standard Version (1901) How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? Common English Bible How long will deceitful prophecies dominate the minds of the prophets? Those prophets are treacherous. Catholic Public Domain Version How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who predict what is false, and who prophesy deceptions from their own heart? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart? |
How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;
I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your shameless prostitutions on the hills of the countryside. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?
And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
Your calf is rejected, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires
because no prophecy ever came by human will, but men and women moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.