Yeremia 23:28

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Nabi yang beroleh mimpi, biarlah menceritakan mimpinya itu, dan nabi yang beroleh firman-Ku, biarlah menceritakan firman-Ku itu dengan benar! Apakah sangkut-paut jerami dengan gandum? demikianlah firman TUHAN.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Nabi yang beroleh mimpi, biarlah menceritakan mimpinya itu, dan nabi yang beroleh firman-Ku, biarlah menceritakan firman-Ku itu dengan benar! Apakah sangkut-paut jerami dengan gandum? demikianlah firman TUHAN.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Adapun nabi yang sudah bermimpi itu hendaklah diceriterakannya mimpinya, dan pada barangsiapa adalah firman-Ku, hendaklah dikatakannya, tetapi dengan sebenarnya, karena apakah perkaranya merang dengan gandum? demikianlah firman Tuhan.

Contextual Overview

⁹ My heart breaketh in my body, because of the false prophetes all my bones shake, I am become like a drunken man that by the reason of wine can take no rest, for very feare of the Lorde and his holy wordes. ¹⁰ Because the lande is full of adulterers, and thorowe swearing it mourneth, and the pleasaunt pastures of the desert are dryed vp: yea the way that men take is wicked, and their power is nothing right. ¹¹ For the prophetes and the priestes them selues are polluted hypocrites, and their wickednesse haue I founde in my house, saith the Lorde. ¹² Wherefore their way shalbe slipperie in the darknesse, wherein they may stacker and fall: for I wyll bryng a plague vpon them, euen the yere of their visitation, saith the Lorde. ¹³ I haue seene folly among the prophetes of Samaria, that preached for Baal, and deceaued my people of Israel. ¹⁴ I haue seene also among the prophetes of Hierusalem foule adultrie, and presumptuous lyes: they take the most shamefull men by the hande, flattering them, so that they can not returne from their wickednes: all these with their citizens are vnto me as Sodom, and as the inhabitours of Gomorre. ¹⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes concerning these prophetes: Beholde, I wyll feede them with wormewood, and make them drinke the water of gall: For from the prophetes of Hierusalem is hypocrisie come into all the lande. ¹⁶ And therfore the Lorde of hoastes geueth you this warning: Heare not the wordes of the prophetes that preache vnto you and deceaue you, truely they reache you vanitie: for they speake the meaning of their owne heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lorde. ¹⁷ They say vnto them that despise me, The Lorde hath spoken it, tushe, ye shall prosper right well: and vnto all them that walke after the lust of their owne heart, they say, tushe, there shall no misfortune happen you. ¹⁸ For who hath sitten in the counsayle of the Lorde, that he hath hearde and vnderstande what he is about to do? who hath marked his deuice, and hearde it?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that hath: Heb. with whom is

speak: Proverbs 14:5, Matthew 24:45, Luke 12:42, 1 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 2:17, 1 Timothy 1:12

What: That is, when the dreamers declare their dreams, and the true prophets faithfully declare their message, the difference between them will be as evident as that between "the chaff and the wheat." 1 Corinthians 3:12, 1 Corinthians 3:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:22 - he hanged Exodus 6:29 - speak Numbers 12:6 - a dream 1 Samuel 28:6 - by dreams 1 Kings 22:14 - what the Lord 2 Kings 22:15 - General 1 Chronicles 17:15 - According 2 Chronicles 18:13 - even what my God Job 33:15 - a dream Proverbs 13:17 - wicked Jeremiah 1:17 - and speak Jeremiah 2:1 - the word Jeremiah 23:25 - dreamed Jeremiah 26:2 - Stand Jeremiah 28:1 - the prophet Jeremiah 36:21 - And Jehudi Jeremiah 42:4 - whatsoever Ezekiel 2:7 - thou Ezekiel 13:3 - have seen nothing Ezekiel 33:7 - thou shalt Daniel 7:1 - Daniel Joel 2:28 - dream Matthew 7:29 - having Luke 4:32 - General Romans 10:17 - and hearing 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - the word of God 2 Timothy 2:2 - faithful 1 Peter 1:23 - by

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream,.... These words are directed not to a true prophet of the Lord, that has a dream from him, or something communicated to him in a dream by the Lord, which he is to deliver as such; but to a false prophet, that says he has dreamed; and if he has dreamed a dream, let him tell it as a "dream" l; so some supply it, as the fruit of his own roving fancy and imagination in sleep; and not call it a revelation from the Lord, and impose it upon the people as such. The Septuagint version is, "let him tell his dream"; let him tell it as his own, and not as a dream from the Lord;

and he that hath my word; the word of prophecy by revelation, and under the influence of the Spirit of God, as the true prophets: "my word"; not the word of men, or the word spoken by angels, or the Scriptures in general; but the word of the Gospel, the word of peace and reconciliation, of righteousness, life, and salvation; the evangelical part of the word, though not to the exclusion of all the rest, but this chiefly: "he that hath it"; or "with whom", or "in whom it is" m; who has it not only in his hands to read, nor merely in his head, so as to have speculative notions of it; but has it in his heart, where it is come with power, and is become the ingrafted word; and who has a large share of spiritual and experimental knowledge of it, and an ability and capacity to express it to the edification of others;

let him speak my word faithfully; or "truly" n; as it is. Ministers of the word are stewards, and it is required of such that they be faithful, and a more honourable character they cannot well have; and then may the word of the Lord be said to be spoken faithfully, when nothing else is spoken but that; when there is no mixture of man's with it; and when the whole of it is spoken, and nothing kept back or concealed; when a man's views in it are sincere and upright, and he aims only at the glory of God; and the good of immortal souls; when it is spoken out, openly and boldly, not as pleasing men, but God, and as in his sight, to whom the account must be given: or, "let him speak my word, truth" o; which is truth; or, for it is truth, as Kimchi; so this is a reason why it should be spoken freely, fully, publicly, and boldly, because it is truth, and nothing but truth: or, "let him speak my word as truth"; or as it is p; it comes from the God of truth; if lies in the Scriptures of truth; the subject matter of it is truth, Christ, who is truth itself, and those doctrines, relative to his person, office, and grace, and salvation by him; and it is the Spirit of truth that directs into it, owns it, and makes it useful;

what [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord; there is no comparison between the one and the other; the one is greatly preferable to the other; there is as much difference between the dreams and lies of the false prophets and the word of God, as there is between chaff and wheat. False doctrine is as "chaff", light; when put into the balance of the sanctuary it is found wanting; it is of no value; it is as wood, hay, and stubble, in comparison of gold, silver, and precious stones; it is not fit for food, and has no nourishment in it, but the contrary, and its end is to be burned. Some doctrine is as "wheat", choice and excellent, pure, solid, substantial, and of a nourishing and strengthening nature. And what is the one to the other? or what have they to do with one another? they should not be mixed together, but separated. So the Syriac version, "why do ye mix the chaff with the wheat?" see 2 Corinthians 2:17. The Targum interprets this of persons, paraphrasing the words thus,

"behold, as one separates between the chaff and the wheat, so I separate between the righteous and the wicked, saith the Lord.''

Wicked men are as "chaff"; such were the false prophets, and all ungodly men, for their emptiness, lightness, unprofitableness, and for their being fit fuel for everlasting burnings; see Psalms 1:5; and good men, and true prophets of the Lord, and all the righteous, are as "wheat" for choiceness and excellency, purity and solidity; and these are not to be mixed together, should not now, nor will they be hereafter, Matthew 3:12.

l יספר חלום "narret [ut] somnium", Grotius, Gataker, Schmidt. m ואשר דברי אתו "et penes quem est verbum meum", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "at cum quo est verbum meum", Schmidt;

και εν ω ο λογος μου προς αυτον, Sept. n אמת "vere", Pagninus, Junius Tremellius "veritate", Montanus, Schmidt. o ידבר דברי אמת "narret meum verbum veritatem, quod est veritas", Kimchi, Ben Melech, Abarbinel. p "Loquatur verbum meum sicuti est", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A dream ... faithfully - Rather, as “a dream”... as truth. The dream is but a dream, and is to be told as such, but God’s word is to be spoken as certain and absolute truth.

The dreams are the chaff, worthless, with nothing in them; the wheat, the pure grain after it is cleansed and winnowed is God’s word. What have these two in common?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 23:28. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. — Do not mingle these equivocal matters with positive revelations. Do not consider a dream, even from a prophet, as that positive inspiration which my prophets receive when their reason, judgment, and spiritual feelings are all in full and in regular exercise. Mix none of your own devices with my doctrines.