Jeremiah 23:31 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their 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.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues and say: The Lord saith it.

Jeremiah 23:31 Cross References

1 Kings 22:11

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’ ”

2 Chronicles 18:5

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

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “See not”; and to the prophets, “Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Jeremiah 23:17

They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to every one who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”

Jeremiah 23:30

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

Jeremiah 23:32

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

Jeremiah 28:15

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

Jeremiah 28:17

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

Micah 2:11

If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!

Deuteronomy 18:20

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