“ Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy. So they shall not prophesy to you; They shall not return insult for insult.

“他们说：‘你们不可说预言；不可向这些人说预言，不住地羞辱我们。’

他们传讲说：“不可传讲；人都不可传讲这些事，羞辱不会临到我们。”

他们传讲说：“不可传讲；人都不可传讲这些事，羞辱不会临到我们。”

他们的先知说：“不要说预言了，不要预言这种事，我们不会蒙受羞辱。”

有人预言说：“你们不要说预言；人不可预言这些事；羞耻不会临到我们。”

他們說：你們不可說預言；不可向這些人說預言，不住地羞辱我們。

他們傳講說：「不可傳講；人都不可傳講這些事，羞辱不會臨到我們。」

他們傳講說：「不可傳講；人都不可傳講這些事，羞辱不會臨到我們。」

他們的先知說：「不要說預言了，不要預言這種事，我們不會蒙受羞辱。」

有人預言說：“你們不要說預言；人不可預言這些事；羞恥不會臨到我們。”

有人發神言說：『不可發神言；人不該發神言論到這些事；羞辱是不會趕上來的。』

彼云、爾曹勿言預言、勿道此事、侮辱之言、永不止息、

宣播訓言、為人禁止、人不許余宣斯言者、以為凌辱其民、

彼謂先知云、勿述預言、先知雖不題此事述預言、凌辱猶不得免、或作彼眾互言先知不當題此事述預言因先知所出凌辱之言永無息止

“ Do not prophesy,” their prophets say.“ Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

“ Don’t prophesy,” the people’s prophets say.“ Don’t prophesy about bad things. Nothing shameful is going to happen to us.”

“ Do not preach”— thus they preach—“ one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

“ Don’t say such things,” the people respond.“ Don’t prophesy like that. Such disasters will never come our way!”

“ Quit your preaching,” they preach.“ They should not preach these things; shame will not overtake us.”

‘ Do not prophesy,’ so they prophesy. But if they do not prophesy about these things, Insults will not be turned back.

Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.

“ Quit your preaching,” they preach.“ They should not preach these things; shame will not overtake us.”

Prophesy ye not,[ say they to them that] prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them,[ that] they shall not take shame.

‘ Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly.‘ These prophets should not preach of such things; we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’

“ Don’t prophesy!” They prophesy.“ Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”

“ But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying,‘ Do not prophesy!’

Who say to the seers,“ Do not see,” And to the prophets,“ Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.

Now there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to Egypt.Then Jehoiakim the king sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor, and other men who went with him to Egypt.And they brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

saying,“ Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!”

And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

For the statutes of Omri are kept; All the works of Ahab’s house are done; And you walk in their counsels, That I may make you a desolation, And your inhabitants a hissing. Therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.”

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

“ Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.”

They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying,‘ Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

But never again prophesy at Bethel, For it is the king’s sanctuary, And it is the royal residence.”

“ You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet; Nor is there any among us who knows how long.

“ Son of man, set your face toward the south; preach against the south and prophesy against the forest land, the South,

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying,‘ Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; In the time of their punishment They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

“ Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD,“ That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, But shall not find it.“ In that day the fair virgins And strong young men Shall faint from thirst.

Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying,“ You will surely die!Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying,‘ This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.