Bible Verses About Prophets

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you, says ADONAI, to rescue you."

Then ADONAI put out his hand and touched my mouth, and ADONAI said to me, "There! I have put my words in your mouth.

Today I have placed you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant."

The word of ADONAI came to me:

"In vain have I struck down your people. They would not receive correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a marauding lion.

This word came to Yirmeyahu from ADONAI:

"Stand at the gate of the house of ADONAI and proclaim this word: 'Listen to the word of ADONAI, all you from Y'hudah who enter these gates to worship ADONAI!

You have done this from the day your ancestors came out of Egypt until today. Even though I sent you all my servants the prophets, sending them time after time,

wish my head were made of water and my eyes were a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night over the slain of the daughter of my people!

I wish I were out in the desert, in some travelers' lodge then I could get away from my people and distance myself from them! "Indeed they are all adulterers, a band of traitors is what they are.

They bend their tongues, their 'bow' of falsehood, and hold sway in the land, but not for truth. For they go from evil to evil, and me they do not know," says ADONAI.

Everyone, be on guard against your neighbor, don't trust even a brother; for every brother is out to trick you, and every neighbor goes around gossiping.

Everyone deceives his neighbor, no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie, they wear themselves out with sinning.

"You inhabit a world of deceit; deceitfully they refuse to know me," says ADONAI.

"Therefore," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot, "I will refine them and test them. What else can I do with the daughter of my people?

Here is the word that came to Yirmeyahu from ADONAI:

ADONAI said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Y'hudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim: 'Listen to the words of this covenant, and obey them.

ADONAI made this known to me, and then I knew - you showed me what they were doing.

ADONAI said to me, "Go, buy yourself a linen loincloth, and wrap it around your body; but don't soften it in water."

So I bought a loincloth, as ADONAI had said, and put it on.

Then the word of ADONAI came to me a second time:

This word of ADONAI came to me:

This word came to Yirmeyahu from ADONAI:

ADONAI then said, "Go; buy a clay jar from the potter; take some of the people's leaders and some of the leading cohanim;

"Then you are to smash the jar in front of the people who went with you,