Jeremiah 23:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Do not listen to the words of prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into illusion, speaking a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of Adonai.

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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.

Jeremiah 23:16 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 22:11

Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says Adonai: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed!”

2 Kings 17:15

So they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them. Instead they went after futile things and became futile, following the nations that surrounded them, about whom Adonai had charged them not to emulate.

2 Chronicles 18:5

So the king of Israel assembled the prophets—400 men—and asked them, “Should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I hold off?” They answered, “Go up, for God will give it into the king’s hand!”

Proverbs 19:27

My son, if you stop heeding instruction, you will stray from words of knowledge.

Jeremiah 14:14

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.”

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says Adonai: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They walked after worthless things, becoming worthless themselves?

Jeremiah 23:21

“I did not send those prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23:26

How long will this continue? Is there anything in the heart of such prophets prophesying lies? These prophets have deception in their heart.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have been disgraceful in Israel, committing adultery with their neighbors’ wives and speaking words in My Name falsely, which I did not command them. But I am the One who knows and I am witness.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: “Do not let your prophets who are among you or your diviners beguile you, and pay no attention to the dreams which you make them keep dreaming.

Jeremiah 9:12

Adonai said “It is because they have forsaken My Torah that I set before them. They have neither obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

Jeremiah 9:20

For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off children from the street and young men from the squares.”

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates sank into the ground. Her bars He destroyed and shattered. Her king and princes are among nations. There is no more Torah. Also her prophets find no vision from Adonai.

Ezekiel 13:16

the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem and see visions of shalom for her, when there is no shalom.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Ezekiel 13:23

therefore you will no longer see false visions or utter lying divinations again. I will deliver My people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Adonai.”

Ezekiel 13:3

thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit—except they have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 13:6

They have prophesied emptiness and predicted falsely, who say, “Adonai says.” Adonai has not sent them, yet they hope for confirmation of their word.

Ezekiel 22:28

Her prophets have plastered them with whitewash, seeing false visions and predicting lies to them, saying ‘Thus says Adonai Elohim,’ when Adonai has not spoken.

Micah 2:11

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood speaks lies—“I will prophesy for you of wine and strong drink”—then he would be a spokesman of this people.

Matthew 7:15

“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Romans 1:21

for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.

1 John 4:1

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