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Jeremiah 23:25

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

These unfaithful prophets claim that I have given them a dream or a vision, and then they tell lies in my name.

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Later, I will give my Spirit to everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.

Some of your people there in Babylonia are fortune-tellers, and you have asked them to tell you what will happen in the future. But they will only lead you astray. And don't let the prophets fool you, either. They speak in my name, but they are liars. I have not spoken to them.

Their dreams and my truth are as different as straw and wheat. But when prophets speak for me, they must say only what I have told them.

So don't judge anyone until the Lord returns. He will show what is hidden in the dark and what is in everyone's heart. Then God will be the one who praises each of us.

I listen carefully, but none of you admit that you've done wrong. Without a second thought, you run down the wrong road like cavalry troops charging into battle.

Then after commanding them to listen carefully, he said: “I, the LORD, speak to prophets in visions and dreams.

I will even kill her followers. Then all the churches will see that I know everyone's thoughts and feelings. I will treat each of you as you deserve.

Nothing is hidden from God! He sees through everything, and we will have to tell him the truth.

Whatever you say in the dark will be heard when it is day. Whatever you whisper in a closed room will be shouted from the housetops.

While Joseph was thinking about this, an angel from the Lord came to him in a dream. The angel said, “Joseph, the baby that Mary will have is from the Holy Spirit. Go ahead and marry her.

I can see everything you are doing, even if you try to hide your sins from me.

The LORD answered: They claim to speak for me, but they're lying! I didn't even speak to them, much less choose them to be my prophets. Their messages come from worthless dreams, useless fortune-telling, and their own imaginations.

Before I even speak a word, you know what I will say,

You know when I am resting or when I am working, and from heaven you discover my thoughts.

Joseph later had another dream, and he told his brothers, “Listen to what else I dreamed. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

One day, Joseph told his brothers what he had dreamed, and they hated him even more.

If you listen to such lies, I will have you dragged far from your country and killed.

Those prophets claim to be speaking for the LORD, but he didn't send them. They are lying! If you do what they say, he will have both you and them dragged off to another country and killed. The LORD has spoken.

Your prophets deceived you with false visions and lying messages— they should have warned you to leave your sins and be saved from disaster.

And then the prophets in Israel cover-up these sins by giving false visions. I have never spoken to them, but they lie and say they have a message from me.

If any such prophets ever appear again, their own parents must warn them that they will die for telling lies in my name—the name of the LORD. If those prophets don't stop speaking, their parents must then kill them with a sword.




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