1 Kings 22:28
Good News Translation
"If you return safely," Micaiah exclaimed, "then the LORD has not spoken through me!" And he added, "Listen, everyone, to what I have said!"

New Revised Standard Version
Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, you peoples, all of you!”

Contemporary English Version
Micaiah said, "If you do come back, I was wrong about what the LORD wanted me to say." Then he told the crowd, "Don't forget what I said!"

New American Bible
But Micaiah said, “If you return in safety, the LORD has not spoken through me.” (He also said, “Hear, O peoples, all of you.”)

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

If thou return

Numbers 16:29 If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.

Deuteronomy 18:20-22 But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain. . . .

2 Kings 1:10,12 And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him. . . .

Isaiah 44:26 That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof.

Jeremiah 28:8,9 The prophets that have been before me, and before thee from the beginning, and have prophesied concerning many countries, and concerning great kingdoms, of war, and of affliction, and of famine. . . .

Acts 13:10,11 Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the Lord. . . .

Hearken

1 Kings 18:21-24,36,37 And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word. . . .

2 Chronicles 18:27 And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

Amos 3:1 Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O ye children of Israel: concerning the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

Micah 1:2 The word of the Lord, that came to Micah, the Morasthite, in the days of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Mark 7:14-16 And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear ye me all and understand. . . .

Mark 12:37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord. And whence is he then his son? And a great multitude heard him gladly.

Context
Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab
27And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace. 28And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:22
Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.

Jeremiah 28:7
Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in thy ears, and in the ears of all the people:

Micah 1:2
The word of the Lord, that came to Micah, the Morasthite, in the days of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

1 Kings 22:27
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