And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
Don't claim to speak 'God's message' anymore, because each person's own words will become their burden. You have twisted and corrupted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts who is our God.
God is warning people to stop falsely claiming to speak for Him, because their deceptive words will come back to burden them.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Jeremiah, the prophet is addressing the people of Judah during a time of moral and spiritual decline leading up to the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BC. False prophets were misusing the term "burden," which referred to divine oracles, to deliver their own fabricated messages instead of God's true words, leading to widespread deception. Jeremiah's warning emphasizes that this perversion of God's messages was not only misleading but also a direct affront to the authority of the living God.
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