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! ” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So do not listen to your [false] prophets, your diviners, your dreamers [and your dreams, whether your own or others'], your soothsayers, your sorcerers, who say to you, You shall not serve the king of Babylon. American Standard Version (1901) But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: Common English Bible As for you, don’t listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, mediums, or your sorcerers who say to you, “Don’t serve the king of Babylon.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, you should not choose to listen to your own prophets, and diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, who say to you: 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore hearken not to your prophets and diviners and dreamers and soothsayers and sorcerers that say to you: You shall not serve the king Babylon. |
But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers #– #the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.
If you stop listening to correction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
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?
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.
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.
‘I have heard what the prophets who prophesy a lie in my name have said: “I had a dream! I had a dream! ”
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.
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,
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.
Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners disappointed. They will all cover their mouths , because there will be no answer from God.
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.
‘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.
They were attentive to him because he had amazed them with his sorceries for a long time.
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
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,”
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.
Along with those the Israelites put to death, they also killed the diviner, Balaam son of Beor, with the sword.
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.
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.’
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.
And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.