Jeremiah 23:21

New King James Version

"I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I did not send out these prophets,yet they ran.I did not speak to them,yet they prophesied.

Hebrew Names Version
I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.

King James Version
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

English Standard Version
"I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

New American Standard Bible
"I did not send these prophets, But they ran. I did not speak to them, But they prophesied.

New Century Version
I did not send those prophets, but they ran to tell their message. I did not speak to them, but they prophesied anyway.

Amplified Bible
"I did not send [these counterfeit] prophets, Yet they ran; I did not speak to them, Yet they prophesied.

World English Bible
I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue not sent these prophets, sayth the Lord, yet they ranne; I haue not spoken to them, and yet they prophecied.

Legacy Standard Bible
I did not send these prophets,But they ran.I did not speak to them,But they prophesied.

Berean Standard Bible
I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Contemporary English Version
I did not send these prophets or speak to them, but they ran to find you and to preach their message.

Complete Jewish Bible
"I did not send these prophets; yet they ran. I did not speak to them; yet they prophesied.

Darby Translation
I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Easy-to-Read Version
I did not send those prophets, but they ran to tell their messages. I did not speak to them, but they spoke in my name.

George Lamsa Translation
I have not sent these prophets, yet they have gone forth; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Good News Translation
The Lord said, "I did not send these prophets, but even so they went. I did not give them any message, but still they spoke in my name.

Lexham English Bible
I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Literal Translation
I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I haue not sent these prophetes, (saieth the LORDE) and yet they ranne. I haue not spoken to them, and yet they preached.

American Standard Version
I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

Bible in Basic English
I did not send these prophets, but they went running: I said nothing to them, but they gave out the prophet's word.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

King James Version (1611)
I haue not sent these prophets, yet they ranne: I haue not spoken to them, yet they prophecied.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue not sent these prophetes [saith the Lorde] and yet they ranne, I haue not spoken to them, and yet they preached.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.

English Revised Version
I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y sente not the profetis, and thei runnen; Y spak not to hem, and thei profesieden.

Update Bible Version
I did not send these prophets, yet they ran: I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

New English Translation
I did not send those prophets. Yet they were in a hurry to give their message. I did not tell them anything. Yet they prophesied anyway.

New Living Translation
"I have not sent these prophets, yet they run around claiming to speak for me. I have given them no message, yet they go on prophesying.

New Life Bible
I did not send these men who say they speak for God, yet they ran to tell their news. I did not speak to them, yet they spoke in My name.

New Revised Standard
I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I sent not the prophets yet they, ran, I spake not unto them yet, they, prophesied.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Revised Standard Version
"I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Young's Literal Translation
I have not sent the prophets, and they have run, I have not spoken unto them, and they have prophesied.

THE MESSAGE
"I never sent these prophets, but they ran anyway. I never spoke to them, but they preached away. If they'd have bothered to sit down and meet with me, they'd have preached my Message to my people. They'd have gotten them back on the right track, gotten them out of their evil ruts.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I did not send these prophets, But they ran. I did not speak to them, But they prophesied.

Contextual Overview

⁹ My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has overcome, Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words. ¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right. ¹¹ "For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the LORD. ¹² "Therefore their way shall be to them Like slippery ways; In the darkness they shall be driven on And fall in them; For I will bring disaster on them, The year of their punishment," says the LORD. ¹³ "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err. ¹⁴ Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah. ¹⁵ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land."' ¹⁶ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD. ¹⁷ They continually say to those who despise Me, "The LORD has said, "You shall have peace"'; And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, "No evil shall come upon you."' ¹⁸ For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, And has perceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard it?

Bible Verse Review
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Jeremiah 23:32, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 27:15, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 29:9, Jeremiah 29:31, Isaiah 6:8, John 20:21, Acts 13:4, Romans 10:15

Reciprocal: Judges 18:6 - Go in peace 2 Chronicles 18:10 - Thus Jeremiah 14:18 - yea Jeremiah 23:16 - a vision Jeremiah 27:14 - they Jeremiah 29:8 - Let Jeremiah 29:23 - and have Ezekiel 22:28 - Thus saith the Lord Matthew 24:5 - in Mark 13:6 - many John 10:1 - He

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran,.... They might be sent of men, and be encouraged by them; but they were not sent of God: it is not only necessary that men employed in religious affairs should have an external call, in an orderly way, from the church of God; but also an internal call from the Lord himself; he qualifying them with gifts, putting his word into their mouths, and inclining their hearts to publish it; see Hebrews 5:4; but these false prophets had no mission nor commission from the Lord, nor were they sent on any errand, or with any message from him; and

yet they ran; showed great diligence and zeal, and made haste to tell the people what the Lord had never said to them, but what were the warm imaginations of their own heads and hearts; they ran a race or course of ministry, but it was not good, as in Jeremiah 23:10. The Targum adds,

"to do evil:''

I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied; wherefore what they prophesied was not the word of the Lord, but what they themselves devised; and so was what was false, as the Targum adds: it is a sad character of men when they speak in public neither by the will of God, nor according to the word of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ran - i. e., hurried to take upon them the responsibilites of the prophetic office.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 23:21. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran — Not to save souls, but to profit themselves.

I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. — They never received the word at my mouth; yet they went, publishing their own deceits, and pretending them to be revelations from God. The churches which have legal emoluments are ever in danger of being overrun and ruined by worldly and self-interested priests.