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Jeremiah 23
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23"How terrible for the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!" declares the Lord.H1945H7462H6H6327H6629H4830H5002H3068
2Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Israel says about the shepherds who are shepherding my people, "You have scattered my flock and driven them away. You haven't taken care of them, and now I'm about to take care of you because of your evil deeds," declares the Lord.H559H3068H430H3478H7462H7462H5971H6327H6629H5080H6485H6485H7455H4611H5002H3068
3"I'll gather the remnant of my flock from all the countries where I've driven them, and bring them back to their pasture where they'll be fruitful and increase in numbers.H6908H7611H6629H776H5080H7725H5116H6509H7235
4I'll raise up shepherds over them, and they'll shepherd them. My flock will no longer be afraid or terrified, and none will be missing," declares the Lord.H6965H7462H7462H3372H2865H6485H5002H3068
5"The time is coming," declares the Lord, "when I'll raise up a righteous branch for David. He will be a king who rules wisely, and he will administer justice and righteousness in the land.H3117H935H5002H3068H6965H1732H6662H6780H4428H4427H7919H6213H4941H6666H776
6In his time Judah will be delivered and Israel will dwell in safety. This is the name by which he will be known: 'The Lord Our Righteousness.'H3117H3063H3467H3478H7931H983H8034H7121H3072
7"Therefore, the time is coming," declares the Lord, "when people will no longer say, 'As surely as the Lord lives who brought up the Israelites from the land of Egypt,'H3117H935H5002H3068H559H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H4714
8but they'll say, 'As surely as the Lord lives who brought the descendants of the Israelites from the land of the north and from all the lands where I had driven them and brought them into the land.' Then they'll live in their own land."H3068H2416H5927H935H2233H1004H3478H6828H776H776H5080H3427H127
9Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones shake. I'm like a drunk man, like a person overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.H3820H7130H7665H5030H6106H7363H7910H376H1397H3196H5674H6440H3068H1697H6944
10Indeed, the land is full of adulterers. Indeed, the land mourns because of the curse; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up. The adulterers' lifestyles are evil, and they use their strength for what is not right.H776H4390H5003H6440H423H776H56H4999H4057H3001H4794H7451H1369
11Indeed, both priest and prophet are ungodly. Even in my house I find evil," declares the Lord.H5030H3548H2610H1004H4672H7451H5002H3068
12Therefore their way will be slippery. They'll be driven out into the darkness, where they'll fall. For I'll bring disaster on them, the year of their judgment," declares the Lord.H1870H2519H653H1760H5307H935H7451H8141H6486H5002H3068
13"Among the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing, for they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.H7200H8604H5030H8111H5012H1168H5971H3478H8582
14Among the prophets of Jerusalem I saw a horrible thing, for they commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of those who do evil, so that no one repents of his evil. All of them are like Sodom to me, and her residents like Gomorrah."H7200H5030H3389H8186H5003H1980H8267H2388H3027H7489H376H7725H7451H5467H3427H6017
15Therefore, this is what the Lord God of the Heavenly Armies says about the prophets, "I'm about to make them eat wormwood and drink poisoned water, because godlessness has spread from the prophets of Jerusalem throughout the land."H559H3068H6635H5030H398H3939H8248H4325H7219H5030H3389H2613H3318H776
16This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you; they're giving you false hopes. They declare visions from their own minds?they don't come from the Lord!H559H3068H6635H8085H1697H5030H5012H1891H1696H2377H3820H6310H3068
17They keep on saying to those who despise me, 'The Lord has said, "You will have peace."' To all who stubbornly follow their own desires they say, 'Disaster won't come upon you.'H559H559H5006H3068H1696H7965H559H1980H8307H3820H7451H935
18But who has stood in the Lord's council to see and hear his word?Who has paid attention to his word and obeyed it -H5975H5475H3068H7200H8085H1697H7181H1697H8085
19Look, the storm of the Lord's wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest, and it will swirl down around the head of the wicked.H5591H3068H3318H2534H2342H5591H2342H7218H7563
20The Lord's anger won't turn back until he has accomplished what he intended to do. In the future you will clearly understand it.H639H3068H7725H6213H6965H4209H3820H319H3117H995H998
21I didn't send these prophets, but they ran anyway. I didn't speak to them, but they prophesied.H7971H5030H7323H1696H5012
22If they had stood in my council and had delivered my words to my people, then they would have turned them back from their evil way, from their evil deeds."H5975H5475H5971H8085H1697H7725H7451H1870H7455H4611
23"Am I a God who is near," declares the Lord, "rather than a God who is far away -H430H7138H5002H3068H430H7350
24If a person hides himself in secret places, will I not see him? declares the Lord. "I fill the heavens and the earth, do I not? declares the Lord.H376H5641H4565H7200H5002H3068H4392H8064H776H5002H3068
25"I've heard what the prophets who prophesy lies in my name have said: 'I had a dream; I had a dream.'H8085H5030H559H5012H8267H8034H559H2492H2492
26How long will this go on?Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy from the deceit that is in their hearts -H3426H3820H5030H5012H8267H5030H8649H3820
27With their dreams that they relate to one another, they plan to make my people forget my name just as their ancestors forgot my name by embracing Baal.H2803H5971H7911H8034H2472H5608H376H7453H1H7911H8034H1168
28Let the prophet who has a dream relate the dream, but let whoever receives my word speak my word truthfully. What does straw have in common with wheat? declares the Lord.H5030H2472H5608H2472H1697H1696H1697H571H8401H1250H5002H3068
29"My word is like fire or like a hammer that shatters rock, is it not? declares the Lord.H1697H3541H784H5002H3068H6360H6327H5553H6327
30"Therefore, look, I'm against the prophets," declares the Lord, "who steal my words from each other.H5030H5002H3068H1589H1697H376H7453
31Look, I'm against the prophets," declares the Lord, "who use their tongues to issue a declaration.H5030H5002H3068H3947H3956H5001H5002
32Look, I'm against those who prophesy based on false dreams," declares the Lord, "and relate them and lead my people astray with their lies and their recklessness. I didn't send them; I didn't command them, and they provide no benefit at all to these people," declares the Lord.H5012H8267H2472H5002H3068H5608H5971H8582H8267H6350H7971H6680H3276H5971H3276H5002H3068
33"Jeremiah, when these people, the prophet, or a priest ask you, 'What is the oracle of the Lord? say to them, 'You are the burden, and I'll cast you out,'" declares the Lord.H5971H5030H3548H7592H559H4853H3068H559H4853H5203H5002H3068
34"As for the prophet, the priest, or the people who say, 'I have an oracle of the Lord,' I'll judge that person and his household.H5030H3548H5971H559H4853H3068H6485H376H1004
35This is what you should say to one another and among yourselves, 'What has the Lord answered? or 'What has the Lord said?H559H376H7453H376H251H3068H6030H3068H1696
36But you are to no longer mention the oracle of the Lord, because the oracle is only for the person to whom the Lord gives his word, and you have overturned the words of the living God, the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, our God.H4853H3068H2142H376H1697H4853H2015H1697H2416H430H3068H6635H430
37This is what you should say to the prophet, 'What has the Lord answered? or 'What has the Lord said?H559H5030H3068H6030H3068H1696
38If you say, 'We have an oracle of the Lord,' therefore this is what the Lord says: he will answer your word with this word, 'Burden of the Lord,' and I'll send you away with these words: 'Don't say, "Oracle of the Lord."'H518H559H4853H3068H559H3068H559H1697H4853H3068H7971H559H559H4853H3068
39Therefore I'll surely forget you and cast you and the city I gave you and your ancestors out of my presence.H5377H5382H5203H5892H5414H1H6440
40I'll bring on you everlasting reproach and everlasting humiliation that won't ever be forgotten."H5414H5769H2781H5769H3640H7911


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