God’s Word Translation
Jeremiah 23:30
30“I’m against the prophets who steal my words from each other,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
- New International Version (NIV)“Therefore,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor.
Context of Jeremiah 23:30
28The prophet who has a dream should tell his dream. However, the person who has my word should honestly speak my word. What does grain have to do with straw?” asks the Lord. 29“Isn’t my word like fire or like a hammer that shatters a rock?” asks the Lord. “I’m against the prophets who steal my words from each other,” declares the Lord. 31“I’m against the prophets who speak their own thoughts and say that they speak for me. 32I’m against those who prophesy dreams they made up,” declares the Lord. “They tell the dreams they made up and lead my people astray with their lies and their wild talk. I didn’t send them or command them to go. They don’t help these people at all,” declares the Lord.
Read all of Jeremiah 23Jeremiah 23:30 word by word
לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִ֥י עַל־הַנְּבִאִ֖ים נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה מְגַנְּבֵ֣י דְבָרַ֔י אִ֖ישׁ מֵאֵ֥ת רֵעֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 23:30
- Jeremiah 14:14Then the Lord told me, “These are the lies that the prophets are telling in my name: They claim that I sent them, commanded them, and spoke to them. They dreamed up the visions they tell you. Their predictions are worthless. They are the products of their own imagination.
- Jeremiah 44:11This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I’m going to bring disaster on you and destroy all of Judah.
- Leviticus 20:3I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. They gave one of their children to Molech, made my holy tent unclean, and dishonored my holy name.
- Leviticus 26:17I will condemn you so that you will go down in defeat in front of your enemies. Those who hate you will be your rulers. You will run away even when no one is chasing you.
- Deuteronomy 18:20But any prophet who dares to say something in my name that I didn’t command him to say or who speaks in the name of other gods must die.”
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will never be willing to forgive that person, because the Lord’s burning anger will smolder against him. All the curses described in this book will happen to him. The Lord will erase ⌞every memory of⌟ that person’s name from the earth.
- Psalms 34:16The Lord confronts those who do evil in order to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
- Ezekiel 13:8“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Your predictions are false, and your visions are lies. That is why I’m against you, declares the Almighty Lord.
- Ezekiel 15:7I will turn against the people of Jerusalem. Even though they have escaped one fire, another fire will burn them. Then they will know that I am the Lord, because I will turn against them.
- 1 Peter 3:12The Lord’s eyes are on those who do what he approves. His ears hear their prayer. The Lord confronts those who do evil.”
Commentaries on Jeremiah 23:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30I am against the prophets - Three cases are mentioned here which excited God's disapprobation: The prophets who stole the word from their neighbor; who associated with the true prophets, got some intelligence from them, and then went and published it as a revelation which themselves had received, Jeremiah 23:30. The prophets who used their tongues; לשונם הלקחים hallokechim leshonam, who lick or smooth with their tongues - gave their own counsels as Divine…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30Jeremiah gives in succession the main characteristics of the teaching of the false prophets. The first is that they steal God‘s words from one another. Having no message from God, they try to imitate the true prophets.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-32Verses 23-32 Men cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves? Let them consider what a vast difference there is between these prophecies and those delivered by the true prophets of the Lord. Let them not call their foolish dreams Divine oracles. The promises of peace these prophets make are no more to be compared to God's promises than chaff to wheat. The unhumbled heart of man is like a rock…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30-32The Lord criticized and opposed the prophets who lied in his name.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. steal my words--a twofold plagiarism; one steals from the other, and all steal words from Jehovah's true prophets, but misapply them (see Jr 28:2; Joh 10:1; Re 22:19).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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