Jeremiah 29:8-9

8For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: aDo not let your prophets and byour diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,
Hebrew your dreams, which you cause to dream
9for dit is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; eI did not send them, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 37:19

19 fWhere are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?

Lamentations 4:13

13 This was for gthe sins of her prophets
and hthe iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.

Micah 3:6

6Therefore iit shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination.
jThe sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them;

Micah 3:11

11 kIts heads give judgment for a bribe;
lits priests teach for a price;
mits prophets practice divination for money;
nyet they lean on the Lord and osay,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
pNo disaster shall come upon us.”

Zephaniah 3:4

4 qHer prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
rher priests sprofane what is holy;
they do violence to the law.

2 Peter 2:1-3

False Prophets and Teachers

1But tfalse prophets also arose among the people, ujust as there will be false teachers among you, who will vsecretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master wwho bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth xwill be blasphemed. 3And yin their greed they will exploit you zwith false words. aaTheir condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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