Jeremiah 23:36

every man's own word shall be his burden mg. is his burden, and ye pervert, etc. Either (a) he who has jokingly enquired after the "burden of the Lord" shall find that those lightly spoken words of his are in very deed the heaviest load to bear, or (b) (rendering for "shall be" is) no alleged prophetic utterance has in fact any higher authority than the speaker himself.

ye have perverted, etc.] The LXX omit this clause; also the greater part of Jeremiah 23:37 (which is Jeremiah 23:35 repeated). The accumulation of epithets in Jeremiah 23:36 renders the clause suspicious.