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## Jeremiah 23:26-29 in Context (Verses 23–32 KJV)
 
 [23 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/23) *Am* I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
 
 [24 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/24) Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/25) I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/26) How long shall *this* be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, *they are* prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
 
 [27 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/27) Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
 
 [28 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/28) The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What *is* the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.*
 
 [29 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/29) *Is* not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer *that* breaketh the rock in pieces?
 
 [30 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/30) Therefore, behold, I *am* against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
 
 [31 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/31) Behold, I *am* against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.*
 
 [32 ](/kjv/jeremiah/23/32) Behold, I *am* against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
 
[Jeremiah 22](/kjv/jeremiah/22) [Jeremiah 24](/kjv/jeremiah/24)

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