Jeremiah 23:25-40
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[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 shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? [27] who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. [28] The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh. [29] Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? [30] Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor. [31] Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says. [32] Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh. [33] When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh. [34] As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house. [35] Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken? [36] The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Hosts our God. [37] Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken? [38] But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh; [39] therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence: [40] and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
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Jeremiah 23:25-40 mentions Egypt, Jerusalem and Samaria.
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