Jeremiah 23:32

I, the Lord, affirm ¹  that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. ²  I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. ³  I, the Lord, affirm it!” ⁴ 

De 13:1-18; De 18:20; Isa 3:12; Jer 7:8; Jer 23:16; Jer 23:22; Jer 27:14-22; Jer 28:15-17; Jer 29:21-23,31; La 2:14; Eze 13:7-18; Zep 3:4; Zec 13:2,3; Mt 15:14; 2Co 1:17; Re 19:20

¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “with their lies and their recklessness.” This is an example of hendiadys where two nouns (in this case a concrete and an abstract one) are joined by “and” but one is intended to be the adjectival modifier of the other.

³ sn In the light of what has been said this is a rhetorical understatement; they are not only “not helping,” they are leading them to their doom (cf. vv. 19-22). This figure of speech is known as litotes.

⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”