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31 Look, I am against the prophets,” declares[a] Yahweh, “who take their tongues[b] and declare as prophets, ‘Yahweh declares.’[c] 32 Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies,”[d] declares[e] Yahweh, “and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all,” declares[f] Yahweh.

33 “Now when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask you, saying,[g] ‘What is the burden[h] of Yahweh?’ then you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden,[i] and I will forsake you,’” declares[j] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:31 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 23:31 Hebrew “tongue”
  3. Jeremiah 23:31 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 23:32 Hebrew “lie”
  5. Jeremiah 23:32 Literally “a declaration of”
  6. Jeremiah 23:32 Literally “a declaration of”
  7. Jeremiah 23:33 Literally “to say”
  8. Jeremiah 23:33 Or “oracle”
  9. Jeremiah 23:33 Literally “What burden”
  10. Jeremiah 23:33 Literally “a declaration of”