Jeremiah 23:26

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How long will this continue in the minds of the prophets prophesying lies, prophets of the deceit of their own minds?

Hebrew Names Version
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

King James Version
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

English Standard Version
How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,

New American Standard Bible
"How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the deceitfulness of their own heart,

New Century Version
How long will this continue in the minds of these lying prophets? They prophesy from their own wishful thinking.

Amplified Bible
"How long [shall this state of affairs continue]? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

World English Bible
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe long? Doe the prophets delite to prophecie lies, euen prophecying the deceit of their owne heart?

Legacy Standard Bible
How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy a lie, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

Berean Standard Bible
How long will this continue in the hearts of these prophets who prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the delusion of their own minds?

Contemporary English Version
But everything they say comes from their own twisted minds. How long can this go on?

Complete Jewish Bible
How long will this go on? Is [my word] in the hearts of prophets who are prophesying lies, who are prophesying the deceit of their own minds?

Darby Translation
How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, and who are prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Easy-to-Read Version
How long will this continue? They think up lies and then they teach them to the people.

George Lamsa Translation
How long shall there be in the mouth of the false prophets, prophecies of lies? prophecies of the deceit of their own heart?

Good News Translation
How much longer will those prophets mislead my people with the lies they have invented?

Lexham English Bible
How long will this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts,

Literal Translation
How long is this there in the heart of the prophets, the prophets of lies; yea, the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How longe wil this cotynue in the prophetes hertes, to tel lyes, and to preach the craftie sotylte of their owne herte?

American Standard Version
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Bible in Basic English
Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
How long shall this be? Is it in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

King James Version (1611)
How long shall this bee in the heart of the prophets that prophecie lies? yea they are prophets of the deceit of their owne heart;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe long wyll this continue in the prophetes heart to tell lies, and preache the craftie subtiltie of their owne heart?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How long shall these things be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?

English Revised Version
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies; even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hou longe is this thing in the herte of profetis, profesiynge a leesyng, and profesiynge the disseite of her herte?

Update Bible Version
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Webster's Bible Translation
How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yes, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

New English Translation
Those prophets are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds.

New King James Version
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

New Living Translation
How long will this go on? If they are prophets, they are prophets of deceit, inventing everything they say.

New Life Bible
How long will there be lies in the hearts of those who speak false words in My name, who speak the lies of their own heart?

New Revised Standard
How long? Will the hearts of the prophets ever turn back—those who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How long shall it be in the heart of the prophets, To be prophets of falsehood, - And prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?

Revised Standard Version
How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,

Young's Literal Translation
Till when is it in the heart of the prophets? The prophets of falsehood, Yea, prophets of the deceit of their heart,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

Contextual Overview

⁹ My head is reeling, my limbs are limp, I'm staggering like a drunk, seeing double from too much wine— And all because of God , because of his holy words. ¹⁰Now for what God says regarding the lying prophets: "Can you believe it? A country teeming with adulterers! faithless, promiscuous idolater-adulterers! They're a curse on the land. The land's a wasteland. Their unfaithfulness is turning the country into a cesspool, Prophets and priests devoted to desecration. They have nothing to do with me as their God. My very own Temple, mind you— mud-spattered with their crimes." God 's Decree. "But they won't get by with it. They'll find themselves on a slippery slope, Careening into the darkness, somersaulting into the pitch-black dark. I'll make them pay for their crimes. It will be the Year of Doom." God 's Decree. ¹³"Over in Samaria I saw prophets acting like silly fools—shocking! They preached using that no-god Baal for a text, messing with the minds of my people. And the Jerusalem prophets are even worse—horrible!— sex-driven, living a lie, Subsidizing a culture of wickedness, and never giving it a second thought. They're as bad as those wretches in old Sodom, the degenerates of old Gomorrah." ¹⁵ So here's the Message to the prophets from God -of-the-Angel-Armies: "I'll cook them a supper of maggoty meat with after-dinner drinks of strychnine. The Jerusalem prophets are behind all this. They're the cause of the godlessness polluting this country." ¹⁶A Message from God -of-the-Angel-Armies: "Don't listen to the sermons of the prophets. It's all hot air. Lies, lies, and more lies. They make it all up. Not a word they speak comes from me. They preach their ‘Everything Will Turn Out Fine' sermon to congregations with no taste for God, Their ‘Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to You' sermon to people who are set in their own ways. ¹⁸"Have any of these prophets bothered to meet with me, the true God ? bothered to take in what I have to say? listened to and then lived out my Word? Look out! God 's hurricane will be let loose— my hurricane blast, Spinning the heads of the wicked like tops! God's raging anger won't let up Until I've made a clean sweep, completing the job I began. When the job's done, you'll see that it's been well done. ²¹"I never sent these prophets, but they ran anyway. I never spoke to them, but they preached away. If they'd have bothered to sit down and meet with me, they'd have preached my Message to my people. They'd have gotten them back on the right track, gotten them out of their evil ruts. ²³"Am I not a God near at hand"— God 's Decree— "and not a God far off? Can anyone hide out in a corner where I can't see him?" God 's Decree. "Am I not present everywhere, whether seen or unseen?" God 's Decree. ²⁵"I know what they're saying, all these prophets who preach lies using me as their text, saying ‘I had this dream! I had this dream!' How long do I have to put up with this? Do these prophets give two cents about me as they preach their lies and spew out their grandiose delusions? They swap dreams with one another, feed on each other's delusive dreams, trying to distract my people from me just as their ancestors were distracted by the no-god Baal. ²⁸"You prophets who do nothing but dream— go ahead and tell your silly dreams. But you prophets who have a message from me— tell it truly and faithfully. What does straw have in common with wheat? Nothing else is like God 's Decree. Isn't my Message like fire?" God 's Decree. "Isn't it like a sledgehammer busting a rock?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How: Jeremiah 4:14, Jeremiah 13:27, Psalms 4:2, Hosea 8:5, Acts 13:10

prophets of: Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 30:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2, 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Peter 2:13-16

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 5:31 - prophets Jeremiah 7:8 - ye trust Jeremiah 8:10 - from the prophet Jeremiah 20:6 - thy friends Jeremiah 23:14 - walk Jeremiah 23:16 - a vision Ezekiel 13:2 - prophesy against 2 Corinthians 5:21 - we Galatians 1:7 - pervert

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?.... To invent such lies, and deceive the people, and turn them away from God; agreeably to the preceding and following verses: this shows that this was not through ignorance and inadvertence; it was a meditated and studied thing by them; they contrived it in their hearts, and they were resolute and bent upon it, and took much delight and pleasure in it; their hearts were in it, and it was in them to do as they did; and in this way they had been long, but should continue no longer. Or the words may be rendered, "how long?" h and a stop be put there, being a short abrupt expression, like that in Psalms 6:3; and the sense be, how long shall they go on thus, pretending to dreams, and visions, and revelations from the Lord, and so impose upon the people? shall they always go on after this manner? no, they shall not: and then the next words may be read, "is there any thing in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?" i nothing that is good; truth is not there; nothing but lies and deceit; the word of God is not there, as it is with the true prophet of the Lord, "he that hath my word", as in Jeremiah 23:28; there is no fear of God, nor knowledge of him and his will, nor faith in him, nor love to him, or any regard to his honour and glory;

yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own hearts; they prophesy nothing but what their own deceitful hearts suggest to them, whereby they are deceived themselves, and deceive others, 2 Timothy 3:13.

h עד מתי "quousque?" Cocceius, Schmidt; "quousque tandem", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "usque quando?" De Dieu. i היש בלב הנבאים "an est in corde prophetarum?", De Dieu, Gataker, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Some translate, “How long? Is it in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and prophesy the deceit of their heart - do they purpose to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they tell one to another?”