Zephaniah 3:4 她的先知是虚浮诡诈的人；她的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。

3:4 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 她的先知是虚浮诡诈的人；她的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 它的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 它的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
当代译本 - 她的先知狂妄诡诈，她的祭司亵渎圣殿，违背律法。
圣经新译本 - 城中的先知都是轻浮诡诈的人；城中的祭司亵渎圣物，违犯律法。
中文标准译本 - 她的众先知是虚浮诡诈的人，她的祭司们亵渎圣所、践踏律法。
现代标点和合本 - 她的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，她的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
和合本（拼音版） - 她的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，她的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
New International Version - Her prophets are unprincipled; they are treacherous people. Her priests profane the sanctuary and do violence to the law.
New International Reader's Version - Their prophets care about nothing. They can’t be trusted. Their priests make the temple “unclean.” They break the law they teach others to obey.
English Standard Version - Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.
New Living Translation - Its prophets are arrogant liars seeking their own gain. Its priests defile the Temple by disobeying God’s instructions.
Christian Standard Bible - Her prophets are reckless — treacherous men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to instruction.
New American Standard Bible - Her prophets are insolent, treacherous men; Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the Law.
New King James Version - Her prophets are insolent, treacherous people; Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have done violence to the law.
Amplified Bible - Her prophets are reckless and treacherous men; Her priests have profaned the sanctuary; They have done violence to the law [by pretending their word is God’s word].
American Standard Version - Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
King James Version - Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
New English Translation - Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God’s laws.
World English Bible - Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
新標點和合本 - 她的先知是虛浮詭詐的人；她的祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 它的先知是虛浮詭詐的人，祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 它的先知是虛浮詭詐的人，祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
當代譯本 - 她的先知狂妄詭詐，她的祭司褻瀆聖殿，違背律法。
聖經新譯本 - 城中的先知都是輕浮詭詐的人；城中的祭司褻瀆聖物，違犯律法。
呂振中譯本 - 她的神言人是鹵莽詭詐的人；她的祭司褻瀆聖的所在，對禮節規矩橫加蹧蹋。
中文標準譯本 - 她的眾先知是虛浮詭詐的人，她的祭司們褻瀆聖所、踐踏律法。
現代標點和合本 - 她的先知是虛浮詭詐的人，她的祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
文理和合譯本 - 其先知輕佻詭詐、其祭司污玷聖所、干犯法律、
文理委辦譯本 - 其先知驕泰誕妄、其祭司污衊聖所、違背法度、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 其先知驕傲詭詐、其祭司污衊聖所、干犯律法、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Sus profetas son impertinentes, hombres traicioneros. Sus sacerdotes profanan las cosas santas y violentan la ley.
현대인의 성경 - 예언자들은 경솔하고 믿을 수 없는 자들이요 제사장들은 성소를 더럽히고 율법을 범하였다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священники оскверняют святыни и попирают Закон.
Восточный перевод - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священнослужители оскверняют храм Всевышнего и попирают Закон.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священнослужители оскверняют храм Аллаха и попирают Закон.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священнослужители оскверняют храм Всевышнего и попирают Закон.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ses prophètes sont insoumis, portés aux trahisons. Ses prêtres ont souillé ╵le sanctuaire , ils ont violé la Loi.
リビングバイブル - エルサレムの預言者たちは自分の利得を求める偽り者だ。祭司たちは律法に背いて、神殿を汚している。
Nova Versão Internacional - Seus profetas são irresponsáveis, são homens traiçoeiros. Seus sacerdotes profanam o santuário e fazem violência à lei.
Hoffnung für alle - Die Propheten sind leichtfertige Betrüger, die Priester entweihen das Heiligtum und legen Gottes Gesetz gerade so aus, wie es ihnen passt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Các tiên tri nó kiêu căng, phản trắc. Các thầy tế lễ nó làm nhơ bẩn Đền Thánh và bẻ cong luật pháp.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ส่วนบรรดาผู้เผยพระวจนะก็เย่อหยิ่ง พวกเขาเป็นคนทรยศ เหล่าปุโรหิตลบหลู่สถานนมัสการ และย่ำยีพระบัญญัติ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บรรดาผู้เผยคำกล่าวของเมืองยโสโอหัง พวกเขาเป็นคนดุร้าย บรรดาปุโรหิตของเมืองดูหมิ่นสิ่งบริสุทธิ์ และพวกเขากระทำผิดต่อกฎบัญญัติ

交叉引用

2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
1 Samuel 2:22 - By this time Eli was very old. He kept getting reports on how his sons were ripping off the people and sleeping with the women who helped out at the sanctuary. Eli called them out: “What’s going on here? Why are you doing these things? I hear story after story of your corrupt and evil carrying on. Oh, my sons, this is not right! These are terrible reports I’m getting, stories spreading right and left among God’s people! If you sin against another person, there’s help—God’s help. But if you sin against God, who is around to help?”
Ezekiel 13:7 - “Haven’t you fantasized sheer nonsense? Aren’t your sermons tissues of lies, saying ‘God says . . .’ when I’ve done nothing of the kind? Therefore—and this is the Message of God, the Master, remember—I’m dead set against prophets who substitute illusions for visions and use sermons to tell lies. I’m going to ban them from the council of my people, remove them from membership in Israel, and outlaw them from the land of Israel. Then you’ll realize that I am God, the Master.
Ezekiel 13:10 - “The fact is that they’ve lied to my people. They’ve said, ‘No problem; everything’s just fine,’ when things are not at all fine. When people build a wall, they’re right behind them slapping on whitewash. Tell those who are slapping on the whitewash, ‘When a torrent of rain comes and the hailstones crash down and the hurricane sweeps in and the wall collapses, what’s the good of the whitewash that you slapped on so liberally, making it look so good?’
Ezekiel 13:13 - “And that’s exactly what will happen. I, God, the Master, say so: ‘I’ll let the hurricane of my wrath loose, a torrent of my hailstone-anger. I’ll make that wall you’ve slapped with whitewash collapse. I’ll level it to the ground so that only the foundation stones will be left. And in the ruin you’ll all die. You’ll realize then that I am God.
Ezekiel 13:15 - “‘I’ll dump my wrath on that wall, all of it, and on those who plastered it with whitewash. I will say to them, There is no wall, and those who did such a good job of whitewashing it wasted their time, those prophets of Israel who preached to Jerusalem and announced all their visions telling us things were just fine when they weren’t at all fine. Decree of God, the Master.’
Jeremiah 6:13 - “Everyone’s after the dishonest dollar, little people and big people alike. Prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth. My people are broken—shattered!— and they put on Band-Aids, Saying, ‘It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine.’ But things are not ‘just fine’! Do you suppose they are embarrassed over this outrage? No, they have no shame. They don’t even know how to blush. There’s no hope for them. They’ve hit bottom and there’s no getting up. As far as I’m concerned, they’re finished.” God has spoken.
Jeremiah 23:32 - “Oh yes, I’ve had it with the prophets who preach the lies they dream up, spreading them all over the country, ruining the lives of my people with their cheap and reckless lies. “I never sent these prophets, never authorized a single one of them. They do nothing for this people—nothing!” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 14:13 - I said, “But Master, God! Their preachers have been telling them that everything is going to be all right—no war and no famine—that there’s nothing to worry about.”
Jeremiah 14:14 - Then God said, “These preachers are liars, and they use my name to cover their lies. I never sent them, I never commanded them, and I don’t talk with them. The sermons they’ve been handing out are sheer illusion, tissues of lies, whistlings in the dark.
Jeremiah 14:15 - “So this is my verdict on them: All the preachers who preach using my name as their text, preachers I never sent in the first place, preachers who say, ‘War and famine will never come here’—these preachers will die in war and by starvation. And the people to whom they’ve been preaching will end up as corpses, victims of war and starvation, thrown out in the streets of Jerusalem unburied—no funerals for them or their wives or their children! I’ll make sure they get the full brunt of all their evil.
Matthew 7:15 - “Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don’t be impressed with charisma; look for character. Who preachers are is the main thing, not what they say. A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook. These diseased trees with their bad apples are going to be chopped down and burned.
Jeremiah 23:9 - My head is reeling, my limbs are limp, I’m staggering like a drunk, seeing double from too much wine— And all because of God, because of his holy words.
Jeremiah 23:10 - Now for what God says regarding the lying prophets: “Can you believe it? A country teeming with adulterers! faithless, promiscuous idolater-adulterers! They’re a curse on the land. The land’s a wasteland. Their unfaithfulness is turning the country into a cesspool, Prophets and priests devoted to desecration. They have nothing to do with me as their God. My very own Temple, mind you— mud-spattered with their crimes.” God’s Decree. “But they won’t get by with it. They’ll find themselves on a slippery slope, Careening into the darkness, somersaulting into the pitch-black dark. I’ll make them pay for their crimes. It will be the Year of Doom.” God’s Decree. * * *
Jeremiah 23:13 - “Over in Samaria I saw prophets acting like silly fools—shocking! They preached using that no-god Baal for a text, messing with the minds of my people. And the Jerusalem prophets are even worse—horrible!— sex-driven, living a lie, Subsidizing a culture of wickedness, and never giving it a second thought. They’re as bad as those wretches in old Sodom, the degenerates of old Gomorrah.”
Jeremiah 23:15 - So here’s the Message to the prophets from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “I’ll cook them a supper of maggoty meat with after-dinner drinks of strychnine. The Jerusalem prophets are behind all this. They’re the cause of the godlessness polluting this country.” * * *
Jeremiah 23:16 - A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “Don’t listen to the sermons of the prophets. It’s all hot air. Lies, lies, and more lies. They make it all up. Not a word they speak comes from me. They preach their ‘Everything Will Turn Out Fine’ sermon to congregations with no taste for God, Their ‘Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to You’ sermon to people who are set in their own ways.
1 Samuel 2:12 - Eli’s own sons were nothing but trouble. They didn’t know God and could not have cared less about the customs of priests among the people. Ordinarily, when someone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant was supposed to come up and, while the meat was boiling, stab a three-pronged fork into the cooking pot. The priest then got whatever came up on the fork. But this is how Eli’s sons treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices to God. Before they had even burned the fat to God, the priest’s servant would interrupt whoever was sacrificing and say, “Hand over some of that meat for the priest to roast. He doesn’t like boiled meat; he likes his rare.” If the man objected, “First let the fat be burned—God’s portion!—then take all you want,” the servant would demand, “No, I want it now. If you won’t give it, I’ll take it.” It was a horrible sin these young servants were committing—and right in the presence of God!—desecrating the holy offerings to God.
Jeremiah 8:10 - “‘So here’s what will happen to the know-it-alls: I’ll make them wifeless and homeless. Everyone’s after the dishonest dollar, little people and big people alike. Prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth. My dear Daughter—my people—broken, shattered, and yet they put on Band-Aids, Saying, “It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine.” But things are not “just fine”! Do you suppose they are embarrassed over this outrage? Not really. They have no shame. They don’t even know how to blush. There’s no hope for them. They’ve hit bottom and there’s no getting up. As far as I’m concerned, they’re finished.’” God has spoken. * * *
Lamentations 2:14 - Your prophets courted you with sweet talk. They didn’t face you with your sin so that you could repent. Their sermons were all wishful thinking, deceptive illusions.
Micah 3:5 - Here is God’s Message to the prophets, the preachers who lie to my people: “For as long as they’re well paid and well fed, the prophets preach, ‘Isn’t life wonderful! Peace to all!’ But if you don’t pay up and jump on their bandwagon, their ‘God bless you’ turns into ‘God damn you.’ Therefore, you’re going blind. You’ll see nothing. You’ll live in deep shadows and know nothing. The sun has set on the prophets. They’ve had their day; from now on it’s night. Visionaries will be confused, experts will be all mixed up. They’ll hide behind their reputations and make lame excuses to cover up their God-ignorance.” * * *
Jeremiah 23:25 - “I know what they’re saying, all these prophets who preach lies using me as their text, saying ‘I had this dream! I had this dream!’ How long do I have to put up with this? Do these prophets give two cents about me as they preach their lies and spew out their grandiose delusions? They swap dreams with one another, feed on each other’s delusive dreams, trying to distract my people from me just as their ancestors were distracted by the no-god Baal.
Hosea 9:7 - Time’s up. Doom’s at the doorstep. It’s payday! Did Israel bluster, “The prophet is crazy! The ‘man of the Spirit’ is nuts!”? Think again. Because of your great guilt, you’re in big trouble. The prophet is looking out for Ephraim, working under God’s orders. But everyone is trying to trip him up. He’s hated right in God’s house, of all places. The people are going from bad to worse, rivaling that ancient and unspeakable crime at Gibeah. God’s keeping track of their guilt. He’ll make them pay for their sins.
Ezekiel 22:26 - “‘Your priests violated my law and desecrated my holy things. They can’t tell the difference between sacred and secular. They tell people there’s no difference between right and wrong. They’re contemptuous of my holy Sabbaths, profaning me by trying to pull me down to their level. Your politicians are like wolves prowling and killing and rapaciously taking whatever they want. Your preachers cover up for the politicians by pretending to have received visions and special revelations. They say, “This is what God, the Master, says . . .” when God hasn’t said so much as one word. Extortion is rife, robbery is epidemic, the poor and needy are abused, outsiders are kicked around at will, with no access to justice.’

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 她的先知是虚浮诡诈的人；她的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 它的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 它的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
当代译本 - 她的先知狂妄诡诈，她的祭司亵渎圣殿，违背律法。
圣经新译本 - 城中的先知都是轻浮诡诈的人；城中的祭司亵渎圣物，违犯律法。
中文标准译本 - 她的众先知是虚浮诡诈的人，她的祭司们亵渎圣所、践踏律法。
现代标点和合本 - 她的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，她的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
和合本（拼音版） - 她的先知是虚浮诡诈的人，她的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。
New International Version - Her prophets are unprincipled; they are treacherous people. Her priests profane the sanctuary and do violence to the law.
New International Reader's Version - Their prophets care about nothing. They can’t be trusted. Their priests make the temple “unclean.” They break the law they teach others to obey.
English Standard Version - Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.
New Living Translation - Its prophets are arrogant liars seeking their own gain. Its priests defile the Temple by disobeying God’s instructions.
Christian Standard Bible - Her prophets are reckless — treacherous men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to instruction.
New American Standard Bible - Her prophets are insolent, treacherous men; Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the Law.
New King James Version - Her prophets are insolent, treacherous people; Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have done violence to the law.
Amplified Bible - Her prophets are reckless and treacherous men; Her priests have profaned the sanctuary; They have done violence to the law [by pretending their word is God’s word].
American Standard Version - Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
King James Version - Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
New English Translation - Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God’s laws.
World English Bible - Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
新標點和合本 - 她的先知是虛浮詭詐的人；她的祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 它的先知是虛浮詭詐的人，祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 它的先知是虛浮詭詐的人，祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
當代譯本 - 她的先知狂妄詭詐，她的祭司褻瀆聖殿，違背律法。
聖經新譯本 - 城中的先知都是輕浮詭詐的人；城中的祭司褻瀆聖物，違犯律法。
呂振中譯本 - 她的神言人是鹵莽詭詐的人；她的祭司褻瀆聖的所在，對禮節規矩橫加蹧蹋。
中文標準譯本 - 她的眾先知是虛浮詭詐的人，她的祭司們褻瀆聖所、踐踏律法。
現代標點和合本 - 她的先知是虛浮詭詐的人，她的祭司褻瀆聖所，強解律法。
文理和合譯本 - 其先知輕佻詭詐、其祭司污玷聖所、干犯法律、
文理委辦譯本 - 其先知驕泰誕妄、其祭司污衊聖所、違背法度、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 其先知驕傲詭詐、其祭司污衊聖所、干犯律法、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Sus profetas son impertinentes, hombres traicioneros. Sus sacerdotes profanan las cosas santas y violentan la ley.
현대인의 성경 - 예언자들은 경솔하고 믿을 수 없는 자들이요 제사장들은 성소를 더럽히고 율법을 범하였다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священники оскверняют святыни и попирают Закон.
Восточный перевод - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священнослужители оскверняют храм Всевышнего и попирают Закон.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священнослужители оскверняют храм Аллаха и попирают Закон.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Пророки его ничтожны и вероломны, а священнослужители оскверняют храм Всевышнего и попирают Закон.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ses prophètes sont insoumis, portés aux trahisons. Ses prêtres ont souillé ╵le sanctuaire , ils ont violé la Loi.
リビングバイブル - エルサレムの預言者たちは自分の利得を求める偽り者だ。祭司たちは律法に背いて、神殿を汚している。
Nova Versão Internacional - Seus profetas são irresponsáveis, são homens traiçoeiros. Seus sacerdotes profanam o santuário e fazem violência à lei.
Hoffnung für alle - Die Propheten sind leichtfertige Betrüger, die Priester entweihen das Heiligtum und legen Gottes Gesetz gerade so aus, wie es ihnen passt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Các tiên tri nó kiêu căng, phản trắc. Các thầy tế lễ nó làm nhơ bẩn Đền Thánh và bẻ cong luật pháp.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ส่วนบรรดาผู้เผยพระวจนะก็เย่อหยิ่ง พวกเขาเป็นคนทรยศ เหล่าปุโรหิตลบหลู่สถานนมัสการ และย่ำยีพระบัญญัติ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บรรดาผู้เผยคำกล่าวของเมืองยโสโอหัง พวกเขาเป็นคนดุร้าย บรรดาปุโรหิตของเมืองดูหมิ่นสิ่งบริสุทธิ์ และพวกเขากระทำผิดต่อกฎบัญญัติ

2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
1 Samuel 2:22 - By this time Eli was very old. He kept getting reports on how his sons were ripping off the people and sleeping with the women who helped out at the sanctuary. Eli called them out: “What’s going on here? Why are you doing these things? I hear story after story of your corrupt and evil carrying on. Oh, my sons, this is not right! These are terrible reports I’m getting, stories spreading right and left among God’s people! If you sin against another person, there’s help—God’s help. But if you sin against God, who is around to help?”
Ezekiel 13:7 - “Haven’t you fantasized sheer nonsense? Aren’t your sermons tissues of lies, saying ‘God says . . .’ when I’ve done nothing of the kind? Therefore—and this is the Message of God, the Master, remember—I’m dead set against prophets who substitute illusions for visions and use sermons to tell lies. I’m going to ban them from the council of my people, remove them from membership in Israel, and outlaw them from the land of Israel. Then you’ll realize that I am God, the Master.
Ezekiel 13:10 - “The fact is that they’ve lied to my people. They’ve said, ‘No problem; everything’s just fine,’ when things are not at all fine. When people build a wall, they’re right behind them slapping on whitewash. Tell those who are slapping on the whitewash, ‘When a torrent of rain comes and the hailstones crash down and the hurricane sweeps in and the wall collapses, what’s the good of the whitewash that you slapped on so liberally, making it look so good?’
Ezekiel 13:13 - “And that’s exactly what will happen. I, God, the Master, say so: ‘I’ll let the hurricane of my wrath loose, a torrent of my hailstone-anger. I’ll make that wall you’ve slapped with whitewash collapse. I’ll level it to the ground so that only the foundation stones will be left. And in the ruin you’ll all die. You’ll realize then that I am God.
Ezekiel 13:15 - “‘I’ll dump my wrath on that wall, all of it, and on those who plastered it with whitewash. I will say to them, There is no wall, and those who did such a good job of whitewashing it wasted their time, those prophets of Israel who preached to Jerusalem and announced all their visions telling us things were just fine when they weren’t at all fine. Decree of God, the Master.’
Jeremiah 6:13 - “Everyone’s after the dishonest dollar, little people and big people alike. Prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth. My people are broken—shattered!— and they put on Band-Aids, Saying, ‘It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine.’ But things are not ‘just fine’! Do you suppose they are embarrassed over this outrage? No, they have no shame. They don’t even know how to blush. There’s no hope for them. They’ve hit bottom and there’s no getting up. As far as I’m concerned, they’re finished.” God has spoken.
Jeremiah 23:32 - “Oh yes, I’ve had it with the prophets who preach the lies they dream up, spreading them all over the country, ruining the lives of my people with their cheap and reckless lies. “I never sent these prophets, never authorized a single one of them. They do nothing for this people—nothing!” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 14:13 - I said, “But Master, God! Their preachers have been telling them that everything is going to be all right—no war and no famine—that there’s nothing to worry about.”
Jeremiah 14:14 - Then God said, “These preachers are liars, and they use my name to cover their lies. I never sent them, I never commanded them, and I don’t talk with them. The sermons they’ve been handing out are sheer illusion, tissues of lies, whistlings in the dark.
Jeremiah 14:15 - “So this is my verdict on them: All the preachers who preach using my name as their text, preachers I never sent in the first place, preachers who say, ‘War and famine will never come here’—these preachers will die in war and by starvation. And the people to whom they’ve been preaching will end up as corpses, victims of war and starvation, thrown out in the streets of Jerusalem unburied—no funerals for them or their wives or their children! I’ll make sure they get the full brunt of all their evil.
Matthew 7:15 - “Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don’t be impressed with charisma; look for character. Who preachers are is the main thing, not what they say. A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook. These diseased trees with their bad apples are going to be chopped down and burned.
Jeremiah 23:9 - My head is reeling, my limbs are limp, I’m staggering like a drunk, seeing double from too much wine— And all because of God, because of his holy words.
Jeremiah 23:10 - Now for what God says regarding the lying prophets: “Can you believe it? A country teeming with adulterers! faithless, promiscuous idolater-adulterers! They’re a curse on the land. The land’s a wasteland. Their unfaithfulness is turning the country into a cesspool, Prophets and priests devoted to desecration. They have nothing to do with me as their God. My very own Temple, mind you— mud-spattered with their crimes.” God’s Decree. “But they won’t get by with it. They’ll find themselves on a slippery slope, Careening into the darkness, somersaulting into the pitch-black dark. I’ll make them pay for their crimes. It will be the Year of Doom.” God’s Decree. * * *
Jeremiah 23:13 - “Over in Samaria I saw prophets acting like silly fools—shocking! They preached using that no-god Baal for a text, messing with the minds of my people. And the Jerusalem prophets are even worse—horrible!— sex-driven, living a lie, Subsidizing a culture of wickedness, and never giving it a second thought. They’re as bad as those wretches in old Sodom, the degenerates of old Gomorrah.”
Jeremiah 23:15 - So here’s the Message to the prophets from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “I’ll cook them a supper of maggoty meat with after-dinner drinks of strychnine. The Jerusalem prophets are behind all this. They’re the cause of the godlessness polluting this country.” * * *
Jeremiah 23:16 - A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “Don’t listen to the sermons of the prophets. It’s all hot air. Lies, lies, and more lies. They make it all up. Not a word they speak comes from me. They preach their ‘Everything Will Turn Out Fine’ sermon to congregations with no taste for God, Their ‘Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to You’ sermon to people who are set in their own ways.
1 Samuel 2:12 - Eli’s own sons were nothing but trouble. They didn’t know God and could not have cared less about the customs of priests among the people. Ordinarily, when someone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant was supposed to come up and, while the meat was boiling, stab a three-pronged fork into the cooking pot. The priest then got whatever came up on the fork. But this is how Eli’s sons treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices to God. Before they had even burned the fat to God, the priest’s servant would interrupt whoever was sacrificing and say, “Hand over some of that meat for the priest to roast. He doesn’t like boiled meat; he likes his rare.” If the man objected, “First let the fat be burned—God’s portion!—then take all you want,” the servant would demand, “No, I want it now. If you won’t give it, I’ll take it.” It was a horrible sin these young servants were committing—and right in the presence of God!—desecrating the holy offerings to God.
Jeremiah 8:10 - “‘So here’s what will happen to the know-it-alls: I’ll make them wifeless and homeless. Everyone’s after the dishonest dollar, little people and big people alike. Prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth. My dear Daughter—my people—broken, shattered, and yet they put on Band-Aids, Saying, “It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine.” But things are not “just fine”! Do you suppose they are embarrassed over this outrage? Not really. They have no shame. They don’t even know how to blush. There’s no hope for them. They’ve hit bottom and there’s no getting up. As far as I’m concerned, they’re finished.’” God has spoken. * * *
Lamentations 2:14 - Your prophets courted you with sweet talk. They didn’t face you with your sin so that you could repent. Their sermons were all wishful thinking, deceptive illusions.
Micah 3:5 - Here is God’s Message to the prophets, the preachers who lie to my people: “For as long as they’re well paid and well fed, the prophets preach, ‘Isn’t life wonderful! Peace to all!’ But if you don’t pay up and jump on their bandwagon, their ‘God bless you’ turns into ‘God damn you.’ Therefore, you’re going blind. You’ll see nothing. You’ll live in deep shadows and know nothing. The sun has set on the prophets. They’ve had their day; from now on it’s night. Visionaries will be confused, experts will be all mixed up. They’ll hide behind their reputations and make lame excuses to cover up their God-ignorance.” * * *
Jeremiah 23:25 - “I know what they’re saying, all these prophets who preach lies using me as their text, saying ‘I had this dream! I had this dream!’ How long do I have to put up with this? Do these prophets give two cents about me as they preach their lies and spew out their grandiose delusions? They swap dreams with one another, feed on each other’s delusive dreams, trying to distract my people from me just as their ancestors were distracted by the no-god Baal.
Hosea 9:7 - Time’s up. Doom’s at the doorstep. It’s payday! Did Israel bluster, “The prophet is crazy! The ‘man of the Spirit’ is nuts!”? Think again. Because of your great guilt, you’re in big trouble. The prophet is looking out for Ephraim, working under God’s orders. But everyone is trying to trip him up. He’s hated right in God’s house, of all places. The people are going from bad to worse, rivaling that ancient and unspeakable crime at Gibeah. God’s keeping track of their guilt. He’ll make them pay for their sins.
Ezekiel 22:26 - “‘Your priests violated my law and desecrated my holy things. They can’t tell the difference between sacred and secular. They tell people there’s no difference between right and wrong. They’re contemptuous of my holy Sabbaths, profaning me by trying to pull me down to their level. Your politicians are like wolves prowling and killing and rapaciously taking whatever they want. Your preachers cover up for the politicians by pretending to have received visions and special revelations. They say, “This is what God, the Master, says . . .” when God hasn’t said so much as one word. Extortion is rife, robbery is epidemic, the poor and needy are abused, outsiders are kicked around at will, with no access to justice.’