The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 23:28 (NKJV)
“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 23:29 (NIV)

‘Is not my word like fire,’ declares the Lord, ‘and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? ​

 

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Jeremiah 23:30 (NIV)

‘Therefore,’ declares the Lord, ‘I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.

 

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Jeremiah 23:31 (NKJV)
Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’

 

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Jeremiah 23:32 (NKJV)
Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all,” says the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 23:33 (ESV)

“When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them,
‘You are the burden, and I will cast you off, declares the Lord.’

 

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Jeremiah 23:34 (ESV)

And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’
I will punish that man and his household.

 

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Jeremiah 23:35 (NASB)
This is what each one of you will say to his neighbor and to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’

 

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Jeremiah 23:36 (ERV)
And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

 

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Jeremiah 23:37 (CSB)

Say to the prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’

 

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Jeremiah 23:38 (CSB)

But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ then this is what the Lord says: Because you have said, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ and I specifically told you not to say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’

 

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Jeremiah 23:39 (ABPE)
Because of this, I shall certainly remove you, and I shall cast you out, and the city that I gave you and your fathers from before my face

 

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Jeremiah 23:40 (BSB)
And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”

 

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Jeremiah 24:1 (NKJV)
The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

 

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Jeremiah 24:2 (ESV)
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

 

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Jeremiah 24:3 (LEB)

And Yahweh asked me, “What are you seeing, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs—the good figs, very good,
and the bad figs, very bad, that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality.”

 

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Jeremiah 24:4 (LEB)

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying

 

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Jeremiah 24:5 (NKJV)
“Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.

 

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Jeremiah 24:6 (NKJV)
For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

 

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Jeremiah 24:7 (BSB)
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.