Jeremiah 23:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until they be consumed.

2 Chronicles 18:5

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

Isaiah 30:10

which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Jeremiah 23:17

They say continually unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.

Jeremiah 23:30

Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither shall they profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 28:15

Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; the LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 28:17

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Micah 2:11

If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

Deuteronomy 18:20

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