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They tell you what they have imagined and not what I have said. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/jeremiah/23-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/jeremiah/23-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/jeremiah/23-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/23.htm">Chapter 23</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/23-15.htm" title="Jeremiah 23:15">◄</a> Jeremiah 23:16 <a href="../jeremiah/23-17.htm" title="Jeremiah 23:17">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/23.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/jeremiah/23.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD Almighty said to the people of Jerusalem, "Do not listen to what the prophets say; they are filling you with false hopes. They tell you what they have imagined and not what I have said. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are deluding you. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/jeremiah/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />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. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/23.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not listen to the words of your prophets, who fill you with emptiness; They speak visions from their own fancy, not from the mouth of the LORD. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.</p><p class="hdg">Hearken.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/27-9.htm">Jeremiah 27:9,10,14-17</a> Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/29-8.htm">Jeremiah 29:8</a> For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/19-27.htm">Proverbs 19:27</a> Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/7-15.htm">Matthew 7:15</a> Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/11-13.htm">2 Corinthians 11:13-15</a> For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/1-8.htm">Galatians 1:8,9</a> But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-1.htm">1 John 4:1</a> Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.</p><p class="hdg">they make.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/2-5.htm">Jeremiah 2:5</a> Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/17-15.htm">2 Kings 17:15</a> And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-21.htm">Romans 1:21</a> Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.</p><p class="hdg">a vision.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/23-21.htm">Jeremiah 23:21,26</a> I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/14-14.htm">Jeremiah 14:14</a> And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and deceit, and the seduction of their own heart.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/13-3.htm">Ezekiel 13:3,6,16,23</a> Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/22-28.htm">Ezekiel 22:28</a> And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/2-11.htm">Micah 2:11</a> Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/23.htm">Lying Prophets</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the land. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.</span><span class="reftext">17</span>They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own heart, they have said: No evil shall come upon you.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/7-15.htm">Matthew 7:15</a></span><br />Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/11-13.htm">2 Corinthians 11:13</a></span><br />For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../galatians/1-8.htm">Galatians 1:8</a></span><br />But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../galatians/1-9.htm">Galatians 1:9</a></span><br />As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/4-1.htm">1 John 4:1</a></span><br />Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-12.htm">Jeremiah 9:12</a></span><br />Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-20.htm">Jeremiah 9:20</a></span><br />Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/14-14.htm">Jeremiah 14:14</a></span><br />And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and deceit, and the seduction of their own heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/27-9.htm">Jeremiah 27:9</a></span><br />Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/27-10.htm">Jeremiah 27:10</a></span><br />For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and cast you out, and to make you perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../lamentations/2-9.htm">Lamentations 2:9</a></span><br />Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/13-3.htm">Ezekiel 13:3</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/13-6.htm">Ezekiel 13:6</a></span><br />They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to confirm what they have said.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/20-12.htm">Almighty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-15.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-29.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-13.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-4.htm">Filling</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-14.htm">Futility</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-21.htm">Hearken</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-9.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-28.htm">Hopes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-15.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-12.htm">Imagination</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-29.htm">Lead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-16.htm">Minds</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-19.htm">Mouth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-1.htm">Prophesy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-1.htm">Prophesying</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-15.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-1.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-21.htm">Teach</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-23.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-9.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-15.htm">Vain</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-3.htm">Value</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-15.htm">Vanity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-14.htm">Vision</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-10.htm">Visions</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-9.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/25-8.htm">Almighty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-36.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-18.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-24.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-6.htm">Filling</a> <a href="/romans/8-20.htm">Futility</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26-3.htm">Hearken</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-17.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/jeremiah/37-9.htm">Hopes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-36.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-17.htm">Imagination</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-9.htm">Lead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-26.htm">Minds</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-4.htm">Mouth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-25.htm">Prophesy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27-10.htm">Prophesying</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-21.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-21.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-34.htm">Teach</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-33.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-14.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-32.htm">Vain</a> <a href="/hosea/7-16.htm">Value</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-18.htm">Vanity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-21.htm">Vision</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-9.htm">Visions</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-22.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: FALSE Almighty are Do fill from futility hopes hosts imagination into is leading listen LORD minds mouth not of own prophesying prophets says speak the their they This Thus to vision visions what who with words you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-16.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 23:16 Thus says Yahweh of Armies Don't listen (Jer.) 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