Jeremiah 23:11
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:11 in other translations
| BSB | “For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD. |
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| WEB | for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD. |
| ASV | for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah. |
| YLT | For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah. |
| DARBY | For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah. |
| BBE | For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord. |
| Webster | For both prophet and priest are profane; even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. |
What does Jeremiah 23:11 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 23:9-22
The false prophets of Samaria had deluded the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem as guilty of more horrible wickedness, by which the people were made bold in sin. These false teachers would be compelled to suffer the most bitter part of the Lord's indignation. They made themselves believe that there was no harm in sin, and practised accordingly; then they made others…
Jeremiah 23:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 23:11
- Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
- Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
- Matthew 21:12-13
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
- Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
- Jeremiah 7:10-11
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord.
- Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
- Jeremiah 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
- Jeremiah 11:15
What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
- Ezekiel 22:25-26
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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- Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
- Jeremiah 23:11
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque así el profeta como el sacerdote son fingidos: aun en mi casa hallé su maldad, dice Jehová. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car, tant le prophète que le sacrificateur sont profanes; même dans ma maison j’ai trouvé leur iniquité, dit l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn sowohl Propheten als Priester sind ruchlos; sogar in meinem Hause habe ich ihre Bosheit gefunden, spricht Jehova. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Propheta namque et sacerdos polluti sunt, et in domo mea inveni malum eorum, ait Dominus. |