Jeremiah 23:25
New International Version
“I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

New Living Translation
“I have heard these prophets say, ‘Listen to the dream I had from God last night.’ And then they proceed to tell lies in my name.

English Standard Version
I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’

Berean Standard Bible
“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

King James Bible
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

New King James Version
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’

New American Standard Bible
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’

NASB 1995
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’

NASB 1977
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’

Legacy Standard Bible
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy a lie in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’

Amplified Bible
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed [visions when on my bed at night].’

Christian Standard Bible
“I have heard what the prophets who prophesy a lie in my name have said: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream! ’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“I have heard what the prophets who prophesy a lie in My name have said, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

American Standard Version
I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have heard the thing that the Prophets said, who prophesy in my name with a lie, and they are saying: ‘I have dreamed a dream’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.

Contemporary English Version
These unfaithful prophets claim that I have given them a dream or a vision, and then they tell lies in my name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesylies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

English Revised Version
I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I've heard the prophets who speak lies in my name. They say, 'I had a dream! I had a dream!'

Good News Translation
I know what those prophets have said who speak lies in my name and claim that I have given them my messages in their dreams.

International Standard Version
"I've heard what the prophets who prophesy lies in my name have said: 'I had a dream; I had a dream.'

JPS Tanakh 1917
I have heard what the prophets have said, That prophesy lies in My name, saying: 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

Literal Standard Version
“I have heard that which the prophets said, | Who prophesy falsehood in My Name, saying, | I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Majority Standard Bible
“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

New American Bible
I have heard the prophets who prophesy lies in my name say, “I had a dream! I had a dream!”

NET Bible
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!'

New Revised Standard Version
I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, “I have dreamed, I have dreamed!”

New Heart English Bible
'I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed."

Webster's Bible Translation
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

World English Bible
“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

Young's Literal Translation
I have heard that which the prophets said, Who prophesy in My name falsehood, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

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Audio Bible



Context
Lying Prophets
24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD. 25“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ 26How long will this continue in the hearts of these prophets who prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the delusion of their own minds?…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

Numbers 12:6
He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.

Jeremiah 8:6
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, 'What have I done?' Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

Jeremiah 14:14
"The prophets are prophesying lies in My name," replied the LORD. "I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.

Jeremiah 23:28
Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?" declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:32
"Indeed," declares the LORD, "I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 27:10
For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.


Treasury of Scripture

I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

heard.

Jeremiah 8:6
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Jeremiah 16:17
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

dreamed.

Jeremiah 23:28,32
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD…

Jeremiah 29:8
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

Genesis 37:5,9
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more…

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Jeremiah 23
1. He prophesies a restoration of the scattered flock.
5. Christ shall rule and save them.
9. Against false prophets;
33. and mockers of the true prophets.














(25) I have dreamed . . .--The words point to the form of the claim commonly made by the false prophets. Dreams took their place among the recognised channels of divine revelation (Genesis 40:8; Genesis 41:16; Joel 2:28; Daniel 7:1), but their frequent misuse by the false prophets brought them into discredit, and the teaching of Deuteronomy 13:1-5 accordingly brought the "dreamer of dreams" no less than the prophet to the test whether what he taught was in accordance with the law of Jehovah. The iteration of "I have dreamed" represents the affected solemnity with which the false prophets proclaimed their visions. Of the disparagement of dreams, consequent on this abuse, we have a striking example in Ecclesiastes 5:3, and later still in Ecclesiasticus 34:1-7. . . . Verse 25. - I have dreamed. Jeremiah mentions it as one of the marks of a false prophet that he appealed to his dreams (comp. Jeremiah 29:8); true prophecy contented itself with less ambiguous media of communication with the unseen world. It may be objected that Abraham (Genesis 15:12), at any rate, and Abimelech (Genesis 20:3) received Divine revelations in dreams; but these were not officially prophets. Nathan and the contemporaries of the author of Job had messages from God by night, but these are called, not dreams, but visions (2 Samuel 7:14, comp. 17; Job 4:13). Deuteronomy (and this is one of its striking points of agreement with Jeremiah) expressly describes a false prophet as "a dreamer of dreams" (Deuteronomy 13:1; comp. 1 Samuel 28:6). Two passages in the Old Testament seem inconsistent with this discouragement of dreams as a medium of revelation - Numbers 12:6, where the Lord is said to make himself known to prophets by visions and dreams, and Joel 2:28, where the prophetic dreams of the old men are one of the features of a Messianic description; but it is noteworthy that the first of these refers to the primitive period of Israel's history, and the second to the distant Messianic age. In its classical period prophecy kept itself sedulously aloof from a field on which it had such compromising companionship (comp. Ecclesiastes 5:7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“I have heard
שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי (šā·ma‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

the sayings
אָֽמְרוּ֙ (’ā·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

of the prophets
הַנְּבִאִ֔ים (han·nə·ḇi·’îm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet

who prophesy
הַֽנִּבְּאִ֥ים (han·nib·bə·’îm)
Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5012: To prophesy, speak, by inspiration

lies
שֶׁ֖קֶר (še·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood

in My name:
בִּשְׁמִ֛י (biš·mî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8034: A name

‘I had a dream!
חָלַ֖מְתִּי (ḥā·lam·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2492: To bind firmly, to be, plump, to dream

I had a dream!’
חָלָֽמְתִּי׃ (ḥā·lā·mə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2492: To bind firmly, to be, plump, to dream


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