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Jeremiah 23:16 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 23 · verse 16
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.Jeremiah 23:16 · King James Version
Jeremiah 23:16 in context
14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
16Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Commentary
Cross references
- Jeremiah 14:14
- Ezekiel 13:6
- 2 Corinthians 11:13-15
- Ezekiel 13:3
- Matthew 7:15
- Jeremiah 27:9-10
- Galatians 1:8-9
Key words (Strong's)
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- prophesynâbâʼto prophesyH5012 →
- Hearkenshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- visionchâzôwna sightH2377 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
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Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-32