Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
Parallel translations
- WEB Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?’
- KJV Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
- NKJV Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?
- NASB And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?
- NLT Where are your prophets now who told you the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?
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Quick answer
Jeremiah challenges the king to consider the false prophets who promised Babylon would not come.
Overview
He contrasts his vindicated warnings with the failed predictions of the false prophets. Their assurances of safety have proven empty as the threat returns. The verse exposes the bankruptcy of comforting lies against the proven reliability of God's true word.
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Cross-references · 13
- Jer 2:28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
- Jer 28:10–17Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
- Jer 28:1–5In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
- Jer 14:13–15“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
- Jer 8:11They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jer 29:31“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
- 2 Kgs 3:13Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
- Jer 23:17They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
- Jer 6:14They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jer 27:14–18Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie.
- Deut 32:36–37For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
- Ezek 13:10–16Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
- Lam 2:14The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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