New English Translation

Jeremiah 23:24-31 New English Translation (NET)

24. “Do you really think anyone can hide himselfwhere I cannot see him?” the Lord asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the Lord asks.

25. The Lord says, “I have heard what those prophets who are prophesying lies in my name are saying. They are saying, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!’

26. Those prophets are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds.

27. How long will they go on plotting to make my people forget who I am through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.

28. Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!

29. My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!

30. So I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who steal messages from one another that they claim are from me.

31. I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who are using their own tongues to declare, ‘The Lord declares….’