Jeremia 23:38

Lutherbibel

Weil ihr aber sprecht: "Last des HERRN", darum spricht der HERR also: Nun ihr dieses Wort eine "Last des HERRN" nennt und ich zu euch gesandt habe und sagen lassen, ihr sollt's nicht nennen "Last des HERRN":

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Wenn ihr aber sagt: „Last des Herrn ", so spricht der Herr also: Weil ihr diesen Ausdruck brauchet: „Last des Herrn ", ich euch aber sagen ließ, ihr sollt nicht von der „Last des Herrn " reden,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye say: 2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:14

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But since ye say, the burden of the Lord,.... Seeing, notwithstanding all prohibitions of it, and directions to the contrary, they still persisted to call prophecy by this name, and that in a jocose and bantering way, and asked for it, and what it was, in a scoffing manner:

therefore thus saith the Lord, because you say this word, the burden of the Lord; will continue to use it, though so displeasing to me:

and I have sent unto you, saying, ye shall not say, the burden of the Lord; and therefore could not plead ignorance of his will, or excuse themselves, by saying they would have avoided it, had they known it was disagreeable to him: this was an aggravation of their impiety, that they should obstinately persist in it, after he had remonstrated against it by his messages to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Since - Or, But if ye say.