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Lying Prophets

Jeremiah 23:11

In 11 translations

BSB
“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
KJV
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
WEB
for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
ASV
for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
LSV
“For both prophet and priest have been profane, || Indeed, I found their wickedness in My house,” || A declaration of YHWH.
YLT
For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.
DBY
For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
DRC
For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
GNV
For both the prophet and the Priest doe wickedly: and their wickednesse haue I found in mine House, saith the Lord.
JPS
For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yea, in My house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
LXXE
For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־גַם־נָבִ֥יא גַם־כֹּהֵ֖ן חָנֵ֑פוּ גַּם־בְּבֵיתִ֛י מָצָ֥אתִי רָעָתָ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Ὅτι ἱερεὺς καὶ προφήτης ἐμολύνθησαν, καὶ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ μου εἶδον πονηρίας αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
  • Jeremiah 6:13“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
  • Matthew 21:12–13Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. And He declared to them, “It is written:…
  • Ezekiel 23:39On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.
  • Jeremiah 32:34They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  • Jeremiah 7:30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  • Jeremiah 8:10Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
  • Ezekiel 8:16So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the…
  • 2 Chronicles 36:14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
  • Jeremiah 7:10–11and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your…
  • Jeremiah 11:15What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?
  • Ezekiel 7:20His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
  • Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
  • Ezekiel 8:5–6“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy. “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see…
  • 2 Chronicles 33:7Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of…
  • Jeremiah 23:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

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