Jeremiah 27:9

Translations

Modern

But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

Traditional

Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

Literal

And you, do not listen to your prophets, and to your diviners, and to your dreamers, and to your soothsayers, and to your sorcerers, whom they speak to you, saying: ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.

Latin

Vos ergo nolite audire prophetas vestros, et divinos, et somniatores, et augures, et maleficos, qui dicunt vobis: Non servietis regi Babylonis:

Original

Hebrew

English

But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

Notes

Jeremiah 27:9–10

Jeremiah warned against those who delivered messages that went against the Lord's:
- [False] prophets made predictions that supported idol worship
- diviners claimed to predict the future by reading the stars, looking into crystal balls, and analyzing animal livers
- Interpreters of dreams predicted the future by explaining people's dreams
- Mediums claimed to talk to dead people
- Sorcerers cast spells to harm or bless people by saying certain words or phrases
You will not serve the king of Babylon: This prediction was incorrect. Nebuchadnezzar conquered the entire region starting in 605 BC.

Jeremiah 27:1–22

The Lord told Jeremiah to send messages to the ambassadors from nearby countries to announce the Lord’s judgment on them. Jeremiah was to show his message by wearing a wooden yoke. This event happened in 594 to 593 BC (see Jeremiah 28:1).

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 14:14
“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
Jeremiah 29:8
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
Isaiah 8:19
When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Revelation 9:21
Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Jeremiah 27:14–16
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie.
Revelation 18:23
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
Jeremiah 23:32
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
Acts 8:11
They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.
Jeremiah 23:25
“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

Places

Babylon: Ancient Mesopotamian city, capital of Babylonian Empire, site of the Tower of Babel

Glossary

Ammon, Ammonites Book of Jeremiah Dreams Edom, Edomites Soothsayer Tyre Yoke

Topics

Ammonites: Character of Ammonites: Prophecies Concerning Babylon: City of Prophecies Concerning Christian Minister: False and Corrupt Divination: Practised by Enchanters Divination: Practised by Sorcerers Dream: False Prophets Pretended to Receive Revelations Through Dreams: False Prophets: Not to be Regarded In Edom: A Name of the Land Occupied by the Descendants of Esau: Prophecies Concerning Edomites: Prophecies Concerning False Prophets: The People: Warned not to Listen To Instruction by Object Lessons: Bonds and Yokes Moabites: Superstitious Nebuchadnezzar: Prophecies Concerning Sidon: A City on the Northern Boundary of the Canaanites: Prophecies Concerning Sorcery: Practiced by False Prophets The Ammonites: Character of Superstitious The Edomites: Character of Superstitious The Sidonians: Character of Superstitious Tyre: City of Prophecies Relating To Tyre: Inhabitants of Superstitious Zodiac Signs

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