Jeremiah 23:32-34
1599 Geneva Bible
32 Behold, I will come against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their flatteries, and I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they bring no profit unto this people, saith the Lord.
33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a Priest shall ask thee, saying, What is the [a]burden of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the Lord.
34 And the prophet, or the priest, or the people that shall say, The [b]burden of the Lord, I will even visit every such one, and his house.
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- Jeremiah 23:33 The Prophets called their threatenings God’s burden, which the sinners were not able to sustain, therefore the wicked in deriding the word, would ask of the Prophets, what was the burden, as though they would say, You seek nothing else, but to lay burdens on our shoulders: and thus they rejected the word of God, as a grievous burden.
- Jeremiah 23:34 Because this word was brought to contempt and derision, he will teach them another manner of speech, and will cause this word burden to cease, and teach them to ask with reverence, What saith the Lord?
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