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Jeremiah 7:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

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For you said, ‘We have made a covenant with Death, and we have an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming catastrophe  passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery.’


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.


How long will this continue in the minds of the prophets prophesying lies, prophets of the deceit of their own minds?


Therefore, I will give  their wives to other men, their fields to new occupants, for from the least to the greatest, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.


Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’


The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?


I said, ‘Oh no, Lord God, you have certainly deceived  this people and Jerusalem, by announcing, “You will have peace,”  while a sword is at  our throats.’


They say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.


No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.


The prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, ‘Listen, Hananiah! The Lord did not send you, but you have led these people to trust in a lie.


This is your lot, what I have decreed for you – this is the  Lord’s declaration – because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.





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