So I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm<n id="1" /> that I am opposed to those prophets who steal messages from one another that they claim are from me.<n id="2" />

I, the <sc>Lord, affirmsc><n id="1" /> that I am opposed to those prophets who are using their own tongues to declare, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> declares&#8230;.&#8217;<n id="2" />

Each of you should merely ask the prophet, &#8216;What answer did the <sc>Lordsc> give you? Or what did the <sc>Lordsc> say?&#8217;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Zephaniah the priest read that letter to the prophet Jeremiah.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The prophet Jeremiah told all this to King Zedekiah of Judah in Jerusalem.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah about the nations.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke concerning Babylon and the land of Babylonia<n id="1" /> through the prophet Jeremiah.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You stumble day and night,p> <p class="poetry">and the false prophets stumble with you;p> <p class="poetry">You have destroyed your own people!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, I will certainly cut<n id="1" /> you into pieces at the hands of the prophets;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will certainly kill you<n id="3" /> in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="5" /> my judgment<n id="6" /> will come forth like the light of the dawn.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">I made some of your sons prophetsp> <p class="poetry">and some of your young men Nazirites.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Is this not true, you Israelites?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is speaking!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;But you made the Nazirites drink wine;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you commanded the prophets, &#8216;Do not prophesy!&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Her prophets are proud;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are deceitful men.p> <p class="poetry">Her priests defile what is holy;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they break God&#8217;s laws.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the twenty-first day of the seventh month,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> spoke again through the prophet Haggai:<n id="2" />

Instead he will say, &#8216;I am no prophet &#8211; indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.&#8217;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized<n id="1" /> him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

whenever a prophet speaks in my<n id="1" /> name and the prediction<n id="2" /> is not fulfilled,<n id="3" /> then I have<n id="4" /> not spoken it;<n id="5" /> the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.&#8221;p>

When everyone who had known him previously saw him prophesying with the prophets, the people all asked one another, &#8220;What on earth has happened to the son of Kish? Does even Saul belong with the prophets?&#8221;p>

Certainly my master is aware of what I did<n id="1" /> when Jezebel was killing the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s prophets. I hid one hundred of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

Now send out messengers<n id="1" /> and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Elisha said to the king of Israel, &#8220;Why are you here?<n id="1" /> Go to your father&#8217;s prophets or your mother&#8217;s prophets!&#8221; The king of Israel replied to him, &#8220;No, for the <sc>Lordsc> is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.&#8221;