Jeremiah 23:21
Context23:21 I did not send those prophets.
Yet they were in a hurry to give their message. 1
I did not tell them anything.
Yet they prophesied anyway.
Jeremiah 23:26
Context23:26 Those prophets are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds. 2
Jeremiah 14:14
Context14:14 Then the Lord said to me, “Those prophets are prophesying lies while claiming my authority! 3 I did not send them. I did not commission them. 4 I did not speak to them. They are prophesying to these people false visions, worthless predictions, 5 and the delusions of their own mind.
Ezekiel 13:3
Context13:3 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 13:6
Context13:6 They see delusion and their omens are a lie. 6 They say, “the Lord declares,” though the Lord has not sent them; 7 yet they expect their word to be confirmed. 8
Ezekiel 13:16
Context13:16 those prophets of Israel who would prophesy about Jerusalem 9 and would see visions of peace for it, when there was no peace,” declares the sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 13:23
Context13:23 Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you 10 will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 22:28
Context22:28 Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. 11 They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
Micah 2:11
Context2:11 If a lying windbag should come and say, 12
‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ 13
he would be just the right preacher for these people! 14
[23:21] 1 tn Heb “Yet they ran.”
[23:26] 2 sn See the parallel passage in Jer 14:13-15.
[14:14] 3 tn Heb “Falsehood those prophets are prophesying in my name.” In the OT, the “name” reflected the person’s character (cf. Gen 27:36; 1 Sam 25:25) or his reputation (Gen 11:4; 2 Sam 8:13). To speak in someone’s name was to act as his representative or carry his authority (1 Sam 25:9; 1 Kgs 21:8).
[14:14] 4 tn Heb “I did not command them.” Compare 1 Chr 22:12 for usage.
[14:14] 5 tn Heb “divination and worthlessness.” The noun “worthlessness” stands as a qualifying “of” phrase (= to an adjective; an attributive genitive in Hebrew) after a noun in Zech 11:17; Job 13:4. This is an example of hendiadys where two nouns are joined by “and” with one serving as the qualifier of the other.
[13:6] 6 sn The same description of a false prophet is found in Micah 2:11.
[13:6] 7 sn The
[13:6] 8 tn Or “confirmed”; NIV “to be fulfilled”; TEV “to come true.”
[13:16] 9 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[13:23] 10 tn The Hebrew verb is feminine plural, indicating that it is the false prophetesses who are addressed here.
[22:28] 11 tn Heb “her prophets coat for themselves with whitewash.” The expression may be based on Ezek 13:10-15.
[2:11] 12 tn Heb “if a man, coming [as] wind and falsehood, should lie”; NASB “walking after wind and falsehood”; NIV “a liar and a deceiver.”
[2:11] 13 tn Heb “I will foam at the mouth concerning wine and beer.”
[2:11] 14 tn Heb “he would be the foamer at the mouth for this people.”