Beware! I am against you, you who sit above the valley, you on top of the rocky plateau – this is the Lord’s declaration – you who say, ‘Who can come down against us? Who can enter our hiding places? ’
Jeremiah 23:30 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Therefore, take note! I am against the prophets’ #– #the Lord’s declaration #– #‘who steal my words from each other. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore behold, I am against the [false] prophets, says the Lord, [I am even now descending upon them with punishment, these prophets] who steal My words from one another [imitating the phrases of the true prophets]. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor. Common English Bible Therefore, I’m against the prophets who steal my words from each other, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, behold: I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who steal my words, each one from his neighbor. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbour. |
Beware! I am against you, you who sit above the valley, you on top of the rocky plateau – this is the Lord’s declaration – you who say, ‘Who can come down against us? Who can enter our hiding places? ’
I am against the prophets’ #– #the Lord’s declaration #– #‘who use their own tongues to make a declaration.
‘Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to set my face against you to bring disaster, to cut off all Judah.
This will be a sign to you” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“that I will punish you in this place, so that you may know that my words of disaster concerning you will certainly come to pass.
‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against your magic bands with which you ensnare people like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. I will free the people you have ensnared like birds.
‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: You have spoken falsely and had lying visions; that’s why you discover that I am against you. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
I will turn against them. They may have escaped from the fire, but it will still consume them. And you will know that I am the Lord when I turn against them.
I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.
But the prophet who presumes to speak a message in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods #– #that prophet must die.”
The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do what is evil.