Quotes About Prophecy

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëI am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.í”

(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)

The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:

For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”

this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on Davidís throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—

I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ëMay the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!í

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,

this is what the LORD says: ëI will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.í”

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëWrite in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacobís distress, but he will be saved out of it.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ëBehold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.

He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.í”

Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

In their sight I instructed Baruch,