Jeremiah 23:25

Contemporary English Version

These unfaithful prophets claim that I have given them a dream or a vision, and then they tell lies in my name.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I have heard what the prophets who prophesy a lie in my name have said: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

Hebrew Names Version
I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

King James Version
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

English Standard Version
I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

New American Standard Bible
"I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, 'I had a dream, I had a dream!'

New Century Version
"I have heard the prophets who prophesy lies in my name. They say, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!'

Amplified Bible
"I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My Name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed [visions when on my bed at night].'

World English Bible
I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue heard what the prophets said, that prophecie lies in my Name, saying, I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed.

Legacy Standard Bible
"I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy a lie in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!'

Berean Standard Bible
"I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: 'I had a dream! I had a dream!'

Complete Jewish Bible
"I have heard what these prophets prophesying lies in my name are saying: ‘I've had a dream! I've had a dream!'

Darby Translation
I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Easy-to-Read Version
"There are prophets who tell lies in my name. They say, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!' I heard them say those things.

George Lamsa Translation
I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed a dream.

Good News Translation
I know what those prophets have said who speak lies in my name and claim that I have given them my messages in their dreams.

Lexham English Bible
"I have heard what the prophets who prophesy lies have said in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed! I have dreamed!'

Literal Translation
I have heard what the prophets said, those who prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I haue herde well ynough, what the prophetes saye, that preach lyes in my name, sayege: I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed.

American Standard Version
I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Bible in Basic English
My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in My name, saying: 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

King James Version (1611)
I haue heard what the prophets said, that prophecie lyes in my Name, saying; I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue hearde well inough what the prophetes say that preache lyes in my name, saying, I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.

English Revised Version
I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y herde what thingis the profetis seiden, profesiynge a leesyng in my name, and seiynge, Y dremede dremes.

Update Bible Version
I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

New English Translation
The Lord says, "I have heard what those prophets who are prophesying lies in my name are saying. They are saying, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!'

New King James Version
"I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

New Living Translation
"I have heard these prophets say, ‘Listen to the dream I had from God last night.' And then they proceed to tell lies in my name.

New Life Bible
"I have heard what the men say who speak false words in My name. They say, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!'

New Revised Standard
I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy in my name falsely, saying, - I have dreamed! I have dreamed!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Revised Standard Version
I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

Young's Literal Translation
I have heard that which the prophets said, Who prophesy in My name falsehood, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

THE MESSAGE
"I know what they're saying, all these prophets who preach lies using me as their text, saying ‘I had this dream! I had this dream!' How long do I have to put up with this? Do these prophets give two cents about me as they preach their lies and spew out their grandiose delusions? They swap dreams with one another, feed on each other's delusive dreams, trying to distract my people from me just as their ancestors were distracted by the no-god Baal.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, 'I had a dream, I had a dream!'

Contextual Overview

⁹ When I think of the prophets, I am shocked, and I tremble like someone drunk, because of the Lord and his sacred words. ¹⁰ Those unfaithful prophets misuse their power all over the country. So God turned the pasturelands into scorching deserts. ¹¹ The Lord told me to say: You prophets and priests think so little of me, the Lord , that you even sin in my own temple! ¹² Now I will punish you with disaster, and you will slip and fall in the darkness. I, the Lord , have spoken. ¹³ The prophets in Samaria were disgusting to me, because they preached in the name of Baal and led my people astray. ¹⁴ And you prophets in Jerusalem are even worse. You're unfaithful in marriage and never tell the truth. You even lead others to sin instead of helping them turn back to me. You and the people of Jerusalem are evil like Sodom and Gomorrah. ¹⁵ You prophets in Jerusalem have spread evil everywhere. That's why I, the Lord , promise to give you bitter poison to eat and drink. ¹⁶ The Lord said: Don't listen to the lies of these false prophets, you people of Judah! The message they preach is something they imagined; it did not come from me, the Lord All-Powerful. ¹⁷ These prophets go to people who refuse to respect me and who are stubborn and do whatever they want. The prophets tell them, "The Lord has promised everything will be fine." ¹⁸ But I, the Lord , tell you that these prophets have never attended a meeting of my council in heaven or heard me speak.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heard: Jeremiah 8:6, Jeremiah 13:27, Jeremiah 16:17, Jeremiah 29:23, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:4, Luke 12:3, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

dreamed: Jeremiah 23:28, Jeremiah 23:32, Jeremiah 29:8, Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:9, Numbers 12:6, Joel 2:28, Matthew 1:20

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:1 - a dreamer 1 Kings 22:11 - Thus saith 2 Chronicles 18:10 - Thus Nehemiah 6:12 - God had Proverbs 19:9 - and Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Jeremiah 5:31 - prophets Jeremiah 8:10 - from the prophet Jeremiah 14:14 - The prophets Jeremiah 20:6 - thy friends Jeremiah 23:14 - walk Jeremiah 27:9 - hearken Jeremiah 27:14 - they Ezekiel 13:2 - prophesy against Ezekiel 22:28 - seeing Amos 2:4 - and their Micah 2:11 - a man Zephaniah 3:4 - light Zechariah 10:2 - the diviners Matthew 24:5 - in 2 Thessalonians 2:2 - by spirit 2 Peter 2:1 - there were

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name,.... Or, "I hear what the prophets say" g, c. though they thought God was at a distance from them, in the highest heavens, and neither saw, nor heard, nor took any notice of what was done on earth, they were greatly mistaken he heard and observed with indignation the false doctrines and lying prophecies which they delivered out in his name to the people, whether in public or in private; for he is the Lord God omniscient and omnipresent; and therefore, though they deceived the people, they could not deceive him; who knew all their schemes and all their designs, from what principles they acted, and with what views;

saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed; not a common dream, but a divine dream; this was one way in which the Lord formerly made known his mind and will to his servants, Numbers 12:6; wherefore these false prophets, in imitation of the true ones, and in order to gain credit from the people, pretended they had a dream from the Lord, in which such and such things were revealed to them; and this is repeated by them for the greater certainty of it, and to raise the people's attention as to something very uncommon and extraordinary. So the Targum,

"saying, a word of prophecy has been shown to me in a dream.''

Now, though the people could not contradict them, or know any otherwise than as they might observe that they agreed not with the word of God, or with his will, as made known by the true prophets of the Lord; for if a man says he has dreamed so and so, another cannot say he has not; because no man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of a man that is in him; yet God, that knows all things, knew that these were all lies and impostures, and that they had never had a dream from him, or any revelation of his will in that way.

g אמרו "dicunt", Calvin, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In Deuteronomy 13:1 “a dreamer of dreams” is used in a bad sense, and with reason. God communicating His will by dreams was a thing too easy to counterfeit for it not to be misused.