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Jeremiah 23:21

World English Bible

I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran.
I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.

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Jeremiah 23:21 in other translations

I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23:21 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 23:21 in context

  1. 19Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out.
    Yes, a whirling storm:
    It will burst on the head of the wicked.
  2. 20Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed,
    and until he has performed the intents of his heart.
    In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
  3. 21I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran.
    I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
  4. 22But if they had stood in my council,
    then they would have caused my people to hear my words,
    and would have turned them from their evil way,
    and from the evil of their doings.
  5. 23“Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh,
    “and not a God afar off?