Jeremiah 42:20
For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Note ye dissembled…: or, ye have used deceit against your souls
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God; and according to all that the Lord our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- For ye
- God made known to the prophet their dissimulation; which he shunned not to declare to them.
- Jeremiah 3:10; Jeremiah 17:10; Psalm 18:44; Psalm 65:3; Ezekiel 14:3, 4; Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew 22:15–18, 35; Galatians 6:7
- dissembled in your hearts
- Heb. have used deceit againstyour souls.
- Numbers 16:38; James 1:22
- Pray
- Jeremiah 42:2