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29 Is not my word like fire?” declares[a] Yahweh, “and like a blacksmith’s hammer that breaks a rock into pieces?

30 Therefore[b] look, I am against the prophets,” declares[c] Yahweh, “who steal my words each one from his neighbor. 31 Look, I am against the prophets,” declares[d] Yahweh, “who take their tongues[e] and declare as prophets, ‘Yahweh declares.’[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:29 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 23:30 Literally “To thus”
  3. Jeremiah 23:30 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 23:31 Literally “a declaration of”
  5. Jeremiah 23:31 Hebrew “tongue”
  6. Jeremiah 23:31 Literally “a declaration of”