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Jeremiah 23:16-32 (AMP)
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16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the 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. 17 They are continually saying to those who despise Me and the word of the Lord, The Lord has said: You shall have peace; and they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own mind and heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18 For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should perceive and hear His word? Who has marked His word and has heard it? 19 Behold, the tempest of the Lord has gone forth in wrath, a whirling tempest; it shall whirl and burst upon the heads of the wicked. 20 The anger of the Lord shall not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the thoughts and intents of His mind and heart. In the latter days you shall consider and understand it perfectly. 21 I did not send these prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in My council, then they would have caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I a God at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off? 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the Lord. 25 I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed . 26 How long yet shall it be in the minds of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even the prophets of the deceit of their own hearts, 27 Who think that they can cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which every man tells to his neighbor, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal? 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; but he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat ? says the Lord. 29 Is not My word like fire ? says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks in pieces the rock ? 30 Therefore behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who steal My words from one another . 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their tongues and say, Thus says the Lord. 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and tell them and cause My people to err and go astray by their lies and by their vain boasting and recklessness--when I did not send them or command them; nor do they profit these people at all, says the Lord.
This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 24) Strength / Sovereignty / Power - "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD
(v. 25) Forgetting / Remembering - False prophets make people forget God by their dreams
(v. 26) Forgetting / Remembering - False prophets make people forget God by their dreams
(v. 27) Forgetting / Remembering - False prophets make people forget God by their dreams
(v. 29) Word of God / Teaching / Knowledge - Word is like a hammer or fire
This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 24) What is God like? Do not I fill heaven and earth?
This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 23) God Is (part VII) (2011-03-26)
(v. 24) God Is (part VII) (2011-03-26)
(v. 29) Old Testament - The Word (2011-03-29)
This passage is referenced in the following study note(s):
(v. 16) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 17) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 18) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 19) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 20) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 21) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 22) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 23) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 24) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 25) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 26) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 27) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 28) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 29) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 30) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 31) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
(v. 32) Devotional: Feelings (2008-12-12)
