Jeremia 27:9

Lutherbibel

Darum so gehorcht nicht euren Propheten, Weissagern, Traumdeutern, Tagewählern und Zauberern, die euch sagen: Ihr werdet nicht dienen müssen dem König zu Babel.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
So höret ihr nun nicht auf eure Propheten, auf eure Wahrsager, auf eure Träumer, auf eure Wolkendeuter und Zauberer, die zu euch sagen: „Ihr werdet dem babylonischen König nicht dienen!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hearken: Jeremiah 27:14-16, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 23:16, Jeremiah 23:25, Jeremiah 23:32, Jeremiah 29:8, Exodus 7:11, Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Deuteronomy 18:14, Joshua 13:22, *marg. Isaiah 8:19, Micah 3:7, Zechariah 10:2, Malachi 3:5, Acts 8:11, Revelation 9:21, Revelation 18:23, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

dreamers: Heb. dreams, Isaiah 47:12-14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:1 - a dreamer 2 Kings 17:17 - used Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Isaiah 44:25 - frustrateth Jeremiah 8:11 - they Lamentations 2:14 - false Ezekiel 21:29 - they see Daniel 4:7 - but 2 Timothy 4:3 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets,.... False prophets, as the Targum. These words are not directed to the Jews, but are a continuation of what the messengers of the nations should say to their masters from the God of Israel, by the mouth of his prophet; for they had their prophets as well as the Jews; as the prophets of Baal, and others:

nor to your diviners; or soothsayers; such an one as was Balaam:

nor to your dreamers; or "dreams"; such as they had themselves, and laid great stress upon; or to those who pretended to interpret them to them:

nor to your enchanters; or stargazers; astrologers, who pretended by the position of the stars to foretell what would come to pass:

nor to your sorcerers; or wizards, or necromancers; who, by unlawful methods, pretended to acquire knowledge of future things:

which speak unto you, saying, ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; meaning, either that they ought not to become tributary to him; or they should not be brought into subjection by him: and so were stirred up to oppose him, and not submit to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dreamers - literally, as in the margin. People dream dreams for themselves, and go to diviners to ask the explanation of them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 27:9. Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets — Who pretend to have a revelation from heaven.

Nor to your diviners — קסמיכם kosemeychem, from קסם kasam, to presage or prognosticate. Persons who guessed at futurity by certain signs in the animate or inanimate creation.

Nor to your dreamers — חלמתיכם chalomotheychem, from חלם chalam, to break in pieces; hence chalom, a dream, because it consists of broken fragments. Dream-interpreters, who, from these broken shreds patch up a meaning by their own interpolations.

Nor to your enchanters — ענניכם oneneychem, from ענן anan, a cloud-cloud-mongers. Diviners by the flight, colour, density, rarity, and shape of clouds.

Nor to your sorcerers — כשפיכם cashshapheychem, from כשף kashaph, to discover; the discoverers, the finders out of hidden things, stolen goods, c. Persons also who use incantations, and either by spells or drugs pretend to find out mysteries, or produce supernatural effects. Every nation in the world had persons who pretended to find out hidden things, or foretell future events and such were gladly encouraged by the ignorant multitude; and many of them were mere apes of the prophets of God. Man knows that he is short-sighted, feels pain at the uncertainty of futurity, and wishes to have his doubts resolved by such persons as the above, to put an end to his uncertainty.