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33 (A)“When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden,[a] and (B)I will cast you off, declares the Lord.’ 34 And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord’, (C)I will punish that man and his household.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:33 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew What burden?

False Prophecy

33 “When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, ‘What is the message(A) from the Lord?’ say to them, ‘What message? I will forsake(B) you, declares the Lord.’ 34 If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, ‘This is a message(C) from the Lord,’ I will punish(D) them and their household.

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(A)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(B)her priests (C)profane what is holy;
    they do violence to the law.

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Her prophets are unprincipled;
    they are treacherous people.(A)
Her priests profane the sanctuary
    and do violence to the law.(B)

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13 (A)“For from the least to the greatest of them,
    everyone (B)is greedy for unjust gain;
and from (C)prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.

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13 “From the least to the greatest,
    all(A) are greedy for gain;(B)
prophets and priests alike,
    all practice deceit.(C)

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