Jeremiah 23:21-22

23:21 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.

23:22 But if they had stood in my inner circle, ² 

they would have proclaimed my message to my people.

They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways

and stop doing the evil things they are doing.

[23:21]  ¹ tn Heb “Yet they ran.”

[23:22]  ² tn Or “had been my confidant.” See the note on v. 18.