Jeremiah 23:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ See, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their own tongues and say, “Says the Lord.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their [own deceitful] tongues and say, Thus says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

Common English Bible

³¹ I’m against the prophets who carelessly deliver oracles, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take up their tongues and say: 'The Lord says it.'

Jeremiah 23:31 Cross References

Jeremiah 23:17

They keep saying to those who despise the word of the Lord, “It shall be well with you,” and to all who stubbornly follow their own stubborn hearts, they say, “No calamity shall come upon you.”

Isaiah 30:10

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;

2 Chronicles 18:5

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred of them, and said to them, “Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” They said, “Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.”

Micah 2:11

If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” such a one would be the preacher for this people!

Jeremiah 23:30

See, therefore, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who steal my words from one another.

Jeremiah 23:32

See, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them and who lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or command them, so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 18:20

But any prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

1 Kings 22:11

Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, “Thus says the Lord: With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.”

Jeremiah 28:15

And the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you made this people trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 28:17

In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died.