Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness! You set me free when I am in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
Jeremiah 23:26 - Tree of Life Version How long will this continue? Is there anything in the heart of such prophets prophesying lies? These prophets have deception in their heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [How long shall this state of things continue?] How long yet shall it be in the minds of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even the prophets of the deceit of their own hearts, American Standard Version (1901) How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? Common English Bible How long will deceitful prophecies dominate the minds of the prophets? Those prophets are treacherous. Catholic Public Domain Version How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who predict what is false, and who prophesy deceptions from their own heart? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart? |
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness! You set me free when I am in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
They say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us smooth words. Prophesy illusions.
Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution— on the hills in the field I have seen your loathsome acts. Oy you, Jerusalem! You are unclean! How much longer?”
Then Adonai said to me: “The prophets prophesy lies in My Name! I did not send them, nor commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, divination, futility, a delusion of their heart.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?
O Jerusalem, purify your heart from wickedness, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Samaria! Your calf is thrown down! My anger is kindled against them! How long will they be incapable of innocence?
and said, “O you, full of all deceit and trickery, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness—will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
For the time will come when they will not put up with sound instruction, but they will pile up for themselves teachers in keeping with their own desires, to have their ears tickled.
For no prophecy was ever brought forth by human will; rather, people spoke from God as they were moved by the Ruach ha-Kodesh.