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16 This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says:

“Don’t listen to the words of the prophets
    who are prophesying to you;
        they’re giving you false hopes.
They declare visions from their own minds—
    they don’t come from the Lord![a]
17 They keep on saying to those who despise me,
    ‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace.”’
To all who stubbornly follow their own desires[b] they say,
    ‘Disaster won’t come upon you.’
18 But who has stood in the Lord’s council
    to see and hear his message?
        Who has paid attention to his message and obeyed it?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:16 Lit. not from the mouth of the Lord
  2. Jeremiah 23:17 Lit. walk in the stubbornness of their heart
  3. Jeremiah 23:18 Or listened to