A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 28:8
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 28:6
Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the Lord’s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
- Jeremiah 28:7
Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
- Jeremiah 28:9
The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him.
- Jeremiah 28:10
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.