Jeremiah 23:17
They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
Note imagination: or, stubbornness
They say continually to those who despise me, ‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’
They say continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- that despise
- Numbers 11:20; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Samuel 12:10; Malachi 1:6; Luke 10:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:8
- Ye
- Jeremiah 4:10; Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 8:11; Jeremiah 14:13, 14; Jeremiah 28:3–9; Isaiah 3:10, 11; Isaiah 57:21; Lamentations 2:14; Ezekiel 13:10, 15, 16, 22; Micah 3:5, 11; Zechariah 10:2
- imagination
- or, stubbornness.
- Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 13:10; Deuteronomy 29:19
- No.
- Jeremiah 18:18; Amos 9:10; Micah 3:11; Zephaniah 1:12