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Jeremiah 27:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So you should not listen to your prophets, diviners,  dreamers, fortune-tellers,  or sorcerers  who say to you, “Don’t serve the king of Babylon! ”

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But the Lord said to me, ‘These prophets are prophesying a lie in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit  of their own minds.


‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.


For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Don’t let your prophets who are among you  and your diviners deceive you,  and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them,


When they say to you, ‘Enquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,’  shouldn’t a people enquire of their God?  Should they enquire of the dead on behalf of the living?


Outside are the dogs,   the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.


But the cowards, faithless,  detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars   #– #their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur,  which is the second death.’


the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; and the voice of a groom and bride will never be heard in you again. All this will happen because your merchants were the nobility of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.


And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.


They were attentive to him because he had amazed them with his sorceries for a long time.


Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners disappointed. They will all cover their mouths  , because there will be no answer from God.


I am against those who prophesy false dreams’   #– #the Lord’s declaration #– #‘telling them and leading my people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all  to these people’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


‘I have heard what the prophets who prophesy a lie in my name have said: “I had a dream! I had a dream! ”


This is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak visions from their own minds,  not from the Lord’s mouth.


Along with those the Israelites put to death, they also killed the diviner, Balaam son of Beor, with the sword.


Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.


But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers #– #the magicians  of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.


For the idols speak falsehood, and the diviners  see illusions; they relate empty dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.


Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath  is coming on the disobedient  because of these things.


‘Do not allow a sorceress  to live.


If you stop listening to correction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.


While they offer false visions and lying divinations about you, the time has come to put you to the necks of the profane wicked ones; the day has come for final punishment.


When the magicians, mediums, Chaldeans, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.


and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, “Let’s follow other gods,” which you have not known, “and let’s worship them,”





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