Jer 23:29-34 | ESV | STEP | Is not my word like fire , declares the Lord , and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

a[See ver. 28 above]

i[See ver. 33 above]

Jeremiah 23:29-34

29 ^aIs not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and ^blike a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? 30 ^cTherefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and ^dlead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when ^eI did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.

33 ^f“When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew What burden?} and ^hI will cast you off, declares the Lord.’ 34 And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ ⁱI will punish that man and his household.