Jeremiah Chapter 23 verse 30 Holy Bible
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
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For this cause I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take my words, every one from his neighbour.
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Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
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Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
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Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.
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Therefore, lo, I `am' against the prophets, An affirmation of Jehovah, Stealing My words each from his neighbour.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 30-32. - The punishment solemnly introduced by a three times repeated, Behold, I am against, etc., corresponding to three several features of the conduct of the false prophets. First we are told that the prophets steal my words every one from his neighbor. The latter part of the phrase reminds us of ver. 27, but the neighbor in this case must mean, at any rate primarily, a fellow-prophet, one who has really received a revelation at first-hand from Jehovah. The "false prophets," not trusting to their "dreams" alone, listen greedily to the discourses of men like Jeremiah, not with a view to spiritual profit, but to making their own utterances more effective. We must remember that they lived by their prophesying (Micah 3:5).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) That steal my words . . .--Another note of the counterfeit prophet is found in the want of any living personal originality. The oracles of the dreamers were patchworks of plagiarism, and they borrowed, not as men might do legitimately, and as Jeremiah himself did, from the words of the great teachers of the past, but from men of their own time, false and unreal as themselves. What we should call the "clique" of false prophets went on repeating each other's phrases with a wearisome iteration. In "my words" we have, probably, the fact that, in part also, they decked out their teaching with the borrowed plumes of phrases from true prophets.
