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32 Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies,”[a] declares[b] Yahweh, “and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all,” declares[c] Yahweh.

33 “Now when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask you, saying,[d] ‘What is the burden[e] of Yahweh?’ then you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden,[f] and I will forsake you,’” declares[g] Yahweh. 34 “And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, ‘The burden[h] of Yahweh,’ I will punish that man and his house.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:32 Hebrew “lie”
  2. Jeremiah 23:32 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 23:32 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 23:33 Literally “to say”
  5. Jeremiah 23:33 Or “oracle”
  6. Jeremiah 23:33 Literally “What burden”
  7. Jeremiah 23:33 Literally “a declaration of”
  8. Jeremiah 23:34 Or “oracle”