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27 who plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestors[a] forgot my name through Baal? 28 The prophet who has with him a dream, let him tell the dream. But the prophet[b] who has my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. What is straw compared to wheat?”[c] declares[d] Yahweh. 29 Is not my word like fire?” declares[e] Yahweh, “and like a blacksmith’s hammer that breaks a rock into pieces?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:27 Or “fathers”
  2. Jeremiah 23:28 Here the subject is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Jeremiah 23:28 Literally “What to the straw in comparison with the wheat”
  4. Jeremiah 23:28 Literally “a declaration of”
  5. Jeremiah 23:29 Literally “a declaration of”

27 They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget(A) my name, just as their ancestors forgot(B) my name through Baal worship.(C) 28 Let the prophet who has a dream(D) recount the dream, but let the one who has my word(E) speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the Lord. 29 “Is not my word like fire,”(F) declares the Lord, “and like a hammer(G) that breaks a rock in pieces?

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