Yeremia 23:32
Konteks23:32 I, the Lord, affirm 1 that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. 2 I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. 3 I, the Lord, affirm it!” 4
Yeremia 27:9
Konteks27:9 So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, 5 by dreams, by consulting the dead, 6 or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, ‘You do not need to be 7 subject to the king of Babylon.’
Yeremia 29:8
Konteks29:8 “For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all 8 says, ‘Do not let the prophets or those among you who claim to be able to predict the future by divination 9 deceive you. And do not pay any attention to the dreams that you are encouraging them to dream.
[23:32] 1 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[23:32] 2 tn Heb “with their lies and their recklessness.” This is an example of hendiadys where two nouns (in this case a concrete and an abstract one) are joined by “and” but one is intended to be the adjectival modifier of the other.
[23:32] 3 sn In the light of what has been said this is a rhetorical understatement; they are not only “not helping,” they are leading them to their doom (cf. vv. 19-22). This figure of speech is known as litotes.
[23:32] 4 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[27:9] 5 sn Various means of divination are alluded to in the OT. For example, Ezek 21:26-27 alludes to throwing down arrows to see which way they fall and consulting the shape of the liver of slaughtered animals. Gen 44:5 alludes to reading the future through pouring liquid in a cup. The means alluded to in this verse were all classified as pagan and prohibited as illegitimate in Deut 18:10-14. The
[27:9] 6 sn An example of this is seen in 1 Sam 28.
[27:9] 7 tn The verb in this context is best taken as a negative obligatory imperfect. See IBHS 508-9 §31.4g for discussion and examples. See Exod 4:15 as an example of positive obligation.
[29:8] 8 tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.”
[29:8] sn See study notes on 2:19 and 7:3 for the explanation of this title.