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Jeremiah 23:13

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and deceived my people Israel.

Jeremiah 23:13 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)

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Jeremiah 23:13 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.

WEB World English Bible

“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

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In context

10 Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.

11 For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

12 Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon them, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and deceived my people Israel.

14 And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the land.

16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

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