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Jeremiah 23:21

I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.

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ASV

I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

KJV

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
שָׁלַ֥חְתִּיsha.Lach.tiI sentH7971 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַנְּבִאִ֖יםha.ne.vi.'Imthe prophetsH5030 →
וְהֵ֣םve.Hemand theyH1992 →
רָ֑צוּRa.tzuthey ranH7323 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
דִבַּ֥רְתִּיdi.Bar.tiI spokeH1696 →
אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם'a.lei.Hemto themH413 →
וְהֵ֥םve.Hemand theyH1992 →
נִבָּֽאוּ׃ni.Ba.'uthey prophesiedH5012 →

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Jeremiah 23:16This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.Jeremiah 14:14“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.Matthew 24:5For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.Jeremiah 27:15For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”Jeremiah 23:32“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 29:31“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,Jeremiah 28:15Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.Jeremiah 29:9For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”Jeremiah 29:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.John 10:1“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.Jeremiah 27:14Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie.Isaiah 6:8Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!”Acts 13:4So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.John 20:21Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”Jeremiah 29:23For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”2 Chronicles 18:10Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”Ezekiel 22:28Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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