Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell it: and he that understandeth my word, let him show it faithfully. For what hath chaff and wheat to do together, sayeth the LORD?
New American Standard Bible
The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
The prophet who has only a dream should recount the dream, but the one who has My word should speak My word truthfully, for what is straw compared to grain?”—this is the Lord’s declaration.
International Standard Version
Let the prophet who has a dream relate the dream, but let whoever receives my message speak my message truthfully. What does straw have in common with wheat?" declares the LORD.
A Conservative Version
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says LORD.
American Standard Version
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 straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.
Amplified
The prophet who has a dream may tell his dream; but he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat [for nourishment]?” says the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.
Darby Translation
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell the dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
The prophet whom with him a dream, he will recount a dream; and whom my word with him, he will speak my word in truth. What to the straw with the grain? says Jehovah.
King James 2000
The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The prophet who [has] with him a dream, let him tell [the] dream. But [the prophet] who [has] my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. {What is straw compared to wheat}?" {declares} Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says Jehovah.
NET Bible
Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!
New Heart English Bible
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?' says the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him relate it as a dream, And he with whom is my word, Let him speak my word as truth, - What is the chaff to the wheat? Demandeth Yahweh:
Webster
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?
World English Bible
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him recount the dream, And he with whom is My word, Let him truly speak My word. What -- to the straw with the corn? An affirmation of Jehovah.
Themes
Dream » Instances of » False prophets pretended to receive revelations through
Dream » Instances of » Revelations by
Dreams » General references to
Dreams » False prophets » Pretended to
Faithfulness » Exhibited in » Declaring the word of God
False prophets » Often pretended to dreams, &c
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 23:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unfaithful Prophets
27 Whose purpose is, with the dreams that everyone tell, to make my people forget my name, as their forefathers did when Baal came up. 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell it: and he that understandeth my word, let him show it faithfully. For what hath chaff and wheat to do together, sayeth the LORD? 29 Is not my word like a fire, sayeth the LORD, and like a hammer that breaketh the hard stone?
Names
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:12-13
If any man build on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, timber, hay, or stubble:
Proverbs 14:5
A faithful witness will not dissemble; but a false record will make a lie.
Matthew 24:45
If there be any faithful servant and wise, whom his master hath made ruler over his household, for to give them meat in season convenient;
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, "If there be any faithful servant, and wise, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their duty of meat, at due season:
1 Corinthians 4:2
Furthermore it is required of the stewards that they be found faithful.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many are, which chop and change with the word of God: but even out of pureness, and by the power of God and in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.
1 Timothy 1:12
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord which hath made me strong: for he counted me true, and put me in office,