Where There is No Vision, the People Perish

Others speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the LORD

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This is the second part of a study on Proverbs 29:18.

In Jeremiah 23 the LORD strongly warns His people against the false prophets.

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They lead you into vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the LORD.” (Jeremiah 23:16, MEV)

“I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
But if they had stood in My counsel
and had caused My people to hear My words,
then they would have turned them from their evil way
and from the evil of their deeds.” (Jeremiah 23:21–22, MEV)

28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream. And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the LORD. 29 “Is not My word like fire,” says the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:28–29, MEV)

30 See, therefore I am against the…