Jeremiah 23:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the [false] prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility) and fill you with vain hopes; they speak a vision of their own minds and not from the mouth of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The LORD proclaims: Don’t listen to the prophets who are speaking to you; they are deceiving you. Their visions come from their own hearts, not from the LORD’s mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Do not choose to listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you and deceive you. They speak a vision from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you and deceive you. They speak a vision of their own heart. And not out of the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:16 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 22:11

Then Zedekiah  son of Chenaanah made iron horns  and said, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You will gore the Arameans with these until they are finished off.” ’

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors  and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves,  following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

2 Chronicles 18:5

So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men, and asked them, ‘Should we go to Ramoth-gilead for war or should I refrain? ’ They replied, ‘March up, and God will hand it over to the king.’

Proverbs 19:27

If you stop listening to correction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Jeremiah 14:14

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.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the  Lord  says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

Jeremiah 23:21

I did not send out these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23:26

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

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have committed an outrage  in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbours’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 29:8

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,

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the person wise enough to understand this?  Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?

Jeremiah 9:20

Now hear the word of the  Lord, you women. Pay attention to   the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters a lament and one another a dirge,

Lamentations 2:9

Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground; he has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates. Her king and her leaders live among the nations, instruction  is no more, and even her prophets receive no vision from the  Lord.

Ezekiel 13:16

those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace.’  This is the declaration of the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 13:23

therefore you will no longer see false visions or practise divination.  I will rescue my people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’

Ezekiel 13:3

This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.

Ezekiel 13:6

They saw false visions and their divinations were a lie.  They claimed, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ when the Lord did not send them,  yet they wait for the fulfilment of their message.

Ezekiel 22:28

Her prophets plaster for them with whitewash by seeing false visions and lying divinations,  saying, “This is what the Lord God says,” when the Lord has not spoken.

Micah 2:11

If a man comes and utters empty lies    – ‘I will preach to you about wine and beer’   – he would be just the preacher for this people!

Matthew 7:15

‘Be on your guard against false prophets   who come to you in sheep’s   clothing   but inwardly are ravaging wolves.

Romans 1:21

For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits  to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.