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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 23:16 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 23:16 |
King James |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
make you vain--They seduce you to vanity, that is, idolatry, which will prove a vain trust to you (Jer 2:5; Kg2 17:15; Jon 2:8), [GESENIUS]. Rather, "they delude you with vain promises of security" (Jer 23:17; compare Psa 62:10) [MAURER].
of their own heart--of their own invention (Jer 23:21; Jer 14:14). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
How were the people to know the false prophets from the true? The former bring a message that fills with vain hopes, or "speak a vision" out of their own invention. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Hearken not - People are under no religious obligation to hear any thing but the revealed will of God, and are not to obey those that call to them for what that doth not call to them. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Hearken not unto the words of the prophets - That is, of those who promise you safety, without requiring you to forsake your sins and turn unto the Lord; see Jer 23:17. |
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.