Jeremiah 23:33
Good News Translation
The LORD said to me, "Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, 'What is the LORD's message?' you are to say, 'You are a burden to the LORD, and he is going to get rid of you.'

New Revised Standard Version
When this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the LORD?” you shall say to them, “You are the burden, and I will cast you off, says the LORD.”

Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah, when a prophet or a priest or anyone else comes to you and asks, "Does the LORD have news for us?" tell them, "You people are a nuisance to the LORD, and he will get rid of you."

New American Bible
And when this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the LORD?” you shall answer, “You are the burden, and I cast you off”—oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.

What.

Jeremiah 17:15 Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.

Jeremiah 20:7,8 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me. . . .

Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amos saw.

Isaiah 14:28 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:

Nahum 1:1 The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite.

Habakkuk 1:1 The burden that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

Malachi 1:1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachi.

I.

Jeremiah 23:39,40 Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence. . . .

Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies.

Deuteronomy 31:17,18 And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:19,20 The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. . . .

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Psalm 78:59,60 God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing. . . .

Hosea 9:12 And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

Context
False Oracles
33If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:1
The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amos saw.

Jeremiah 12:7
I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 23:39
Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence.

Nahum 1:1
The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite.

Habakkuk 1:1
The burden that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

Zechariah 9:1
The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and of Damascus the rest thereof: for the eye of man, and of all the tribes of Israel is the Lord's.

Malachi 1:1
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachi.

Jeremiah 23:32
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