Jeremiah 23:30

Contemporary English Version

These unfaithful prophets claim I give them their dreams, but it isn't true. I didn't choose them to be my prophets, and yet they babble on and on, speaking in my name, while stealing words from each other. And when my people hear these liars, they are led astray instead of being helped. So I warn you that I am now the enemy of these prophets. I, the Lord , have spoken.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, take note! I am against the prophets”—the Lord’s declaration—“who steal my words from each other.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

King James Version
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord , that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

English Standard Version
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord , who steal my words from one another.

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who steal My words from each other.

New Century Version
"So I am against the false prophets," says the Lord . "They keep stealing words from each other and say they are from me.

Amplified Bible
"Therefore behold (hear this), I am against the [counterfeit] prophets," says the LORD, "[I am descending on them with punishment, these prophets] who steal My words from one another [imitating the words of the true prophets].

World English Bible
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore beholde, I will come against the prophets, saieth the Lorde, that steale my word euerie one from his neighbour.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," declares Yahweh, "who steal My words from each other.

Berean Standard Bible
"Therefore behold," declares the LORD, "I am against the prophets who steal from each other words they attribute to Me."

Complete Jewish Bible
So, I am against the prophets," says Adonai , "who steal my words from each other.

Darby Translation
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Easy-to-Read Version
This message is from the Lord : "So I am against the false prophets. They keep stealing my words from each other."

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words, every one from his neighbor.

Good News Translation
I am against those prophets who take each other's words and proclaim them as my message.

Lexham English Bible
"Therefore look, I am against the prophets," declares Yahweh, "who steal my words each one from his neighbor.

Literal Translation
Then, Jehovah says, Behold, I am against the prophets who steal My Words, each one from his neighbor.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore thus saieth the LORDE: beholde, I wil vpo the prophetes, that steale my worde priuely from euery man.

American Standard Version
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.

Bible in Basic English
For this cause I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take my words, every one from his neighbour.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal My words every one from his neighbour.

King James Version (1611)
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, sayth the Lord, that steale my worde euery one from his neighbour.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore thus saith the Lodre: beholde, I wyll vpon the prophetes that steale my worde priuilie from euery man.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

English Revised Version
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor lo! Y am redi to the profetis, seith the Lord, that stelen my wordis, ech man fro his neiybore.

Update Bible Version
Therefore, look, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.

New English Translation
So I, the Lord , affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who steal messages from one another that they claim are from me.

New King James Version
"Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who steal My words every one from his neighbor.

New Living Translation
"Therefore," says the Lord , "I am against these prophets who steal messages from each other and claim they are from me.

New Life Bible
So I am against those who tell what is going to happen in the future," says the Lord, "who steal My words from each other.

New Revised Standard
See, therefore, I am against the prophets, says the Lord , who steal my words from one another.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore! behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh, - who steal my words, every man from his neighbour:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words from one another.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, lo, I [am] against the prophets, An affirmation of Jehovah, Stealing My words each from his neighbour.

THE MESSAGE
"I've had it with the ‘prophets' who get all their sermons secondhand from each other. Yes, I've had it with them. They make up stuff and then pretend it's a real sermon.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who steal My words from each other.

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

Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:15, Jeremiah 44:11, Jeremiah 44:29, Leviticus 20:3, Leviticus 26:17, Deuteronomy 18:20, Deuteronomy 29:20, Psalms 34:16, Ezekiel 13:8, Ezekiel 13:20, Ezekiel 15:7, 1 Peter 3:12

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 21:13 - I am

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the Lord,.... The false prophets, with whom the Lord was displeased; he set himself against them, and was determined to bring wrath and ruin on them. So the Targum,

"therefore, behold, I send my fury against the false prophets;''

that steal my word, or "words" q,

everyone from his neighbour; either from the true prophets; beginning their prophecies as they did, with a "thus saith the Lord"; and mingling some words and phrases used by them, the better to ingratiate themselves among the people, and that they might be taken for the prophets of the Lord; as Pelagius, Austin says, used the word "grace", the better to hide his sentiments, and cause them the more easily to be received by the people: or from the false prophets; they privately meeting, and consulting, and agreeing together what they should say to the people, as if they were the words of the Lord: or else from the people themselves; lessening their esteem for the words of the Lord; making them negligent of them and indifferent to them; and causing them to forget what they had heard and received.

q דברי "verba mea", Munster, Pagniuus, Montanus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah gives in succession the main characteristics of the teaching of the false prophets. The first is that they steal God’s words from one another. Having no message from God, they try to imitate the true prophets.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 23:30. I am against the prophets — Three cases are mentioned here which excited God's disapprobation:

1. The prophets who stole the word from their neighbour; who associated with the true prophets, got some intelligence from them, and then went and published it as a revelation which themselves had received, Jeremiah 23:30.

2. The prophets who used their tongues; הלקחים לשונם hallokechim leshonam, who lick or smooth with their tongues - gave their own counsels as Divine revelations, flattering them in their sins, and promising peace, when God had not spoken; and prefaced them, "Thus saith the Lord," Jeremiah 23:31.

3. The prophets who made up false stories, which they termed prophecies, revealed to them in dreams; and thus caused the people to err, Jeremiah 23:32.