Jeremiah 23:16-34 HCSB This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are making you worthless. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the LORD's mouth. 17 They keep on saying to those who despise Me: The LORD has said: You will have peace. To everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they have said, No harm will come to you." 18 For who has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has paid attention to His word and obeyed? 19 Look, a storm from the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling storm. It will whirl about the head of the wicked. 20 The LORD's anger will not turn back until He has completely fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In time to come you will understand it clearly. 21 I did not send these prophets, yet they ran with a message. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. 22 If they had really stood in My council, they would have enabled My people to hear My words and would have turned them back from their evil ways and their evil deeds. 23 "Am I a God who is only near"--this is the LORD's declaration--"and not a God who is far away? 24 Can a man hide himself in secret places where I cannot see him?"--the LORD's declaration. "Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?"--the LORD's declaration. 25 "I have heard what the prophets who prophesy a lie in My name have said: I had a dream! I had a dream! 26 How long will this continue in the minds of the prophets prophesying lies, prophets of the deceit of their own minds? 27 Through their dreams that they tell one another, they make plans to cause My people to forget My name as their fathers forgot My name through Baal worship. 28 The prophet who has only a dream should recount the dream, but the one who has My word should speak My word truthfully, for what is straw compared to grain?"--the LORD's declaration. 29 "Is not My word like fire"--the LORD's declaration--"and like a sledgehammer that pulverizes rock? 30 Therefore, take note! I am against the prophets"--the LORD's declaration--"who steal My words from each other. 31 I am against the prophets"--the LORD's declaration--"who use their own tongues to deliver an oracle. 32 I am against those who prophesy false dreams"--the LORD's declaration--"telling them and leading My people astray with their falsehoods and their boasting. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people"--this is the LORD's declaration. 33 "Now when these people or a prophet or a priest asks you: What is the burden of the LORD? you will respond to them: What is the burden? I will throw you away"--this is the LORD's declaration. 34 "As for the prophet, priest, or people who say: The burden of the LORD, I will punish that man and his household.

Devotionals: Jeremiah 23:16-17 Tumors of the Soul

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