Jeremiah 27:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You, therefore, must not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.”

Cross References

Exodus 22:18

“You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.

Exodus 7:11

Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.

Proverbs 19:27

My child, stop ignoring instruction, straying from words of knowledge.

Isaiah 8:19

Now if people say to you, “Consult the ghosts and the familiar spirits that chirp and mutter; should not a people consult their gods, the dead on behalf of the living,

Jeremiah 14:14

And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are deluding you. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:25

I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, “I have dreamed! I have dreamed!”

Jeremiah 23:32

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

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let the prophets and the diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to your dreams that you dream,

Ezekiel 21:29

Offering false visions for you, divining lies for you, they place you over the necks of the vile, wicked ones— those whose day has come, the time of final punishment.

Daniel 4:7

Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not tell me its interpretation.

Micah 3:7

the seers shall be disgraced and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer for lack of a shepherd.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Acts 8:11

And they listened eagerly to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.

Deuteronomy 13:2

and the omens or the portents declared by them take place, and they say, ‘Let us follow other gods’ (whom you have not known) ‘and let us serve them,’

Deuteronomy 18:14

Although these nations that you are about to dispossess do give heed to soothsayers and diviners, as for you, the Lord your God does not permit you to do so.

Joshua 13:22

Along with the rest of those they put to death, the Israelites also put to the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.

Revelation 18:23

and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the magnates of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

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

Revelation 9:21

And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their prostitution or their thefts.