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Jeremiah 23
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The Branch of Righteousness

23"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" says the LORD.H1945H7462H6H6327H6629H4830H5002H3068 2Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: "You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings," says the LORD.H559H3068H430H3478H7462H7462H5971H6327H6629H5080H6485H6485H7455H4611H5002H3068 3"But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.H6908H7611H6629H776H5080H7725H5116H6509H7235 4"I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking," says the LORD.H6965H7462H7462H3372H2865H6485H5002H3068 5"Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.H3117H935H5002H3068H6965H1732H6662H6780H4428H4427H7919H6213H4941H6666H776 6In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.H3117H3063H3467H3478H7931H983H8034H7121H3072 7"Therefore, behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that they shall no longer say, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'H3117H935H5002H3068H559H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H4714 8"but, 'As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.' And they shall dwell in their own land."H3068H2416H5927H935H2233H1004H3478H6828H776H776H5080H3427H127

False Prophets and Empty Oracles

9My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has overcome, Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words.H3820H7130H7665H5030H6106H7363H7910H376H1397H3196H5674H6440H3068H1697H6944 10For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right.H776H4390H5003H6440H423H776H56H4999H4057H3001H4794H7451H1369 11"For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the LORD.H5030H3548H2610H1004H4672H7451H5002H3068 12"Therefore their way shall be to them Like slippery ways; In the darkness they shall be driven on And fall in them; For I will bring disaster on them, The year of their punishment," says the LORD.H1870H2519H653H1760H5307H935H7451H8141H6486H5002H3068 13"And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err.H7200H8604H5030H8111H5012H1168H5971H3478H8582 14Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.H7200H5030H3389H8186H5003H1980H8267H2388H3027H7489H376H7725H7451H5467H3427H6017 15"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: 'Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land.'"H559H3068H6635H5030H398H3939H8248H4325H7219H5030H3389H2613H3318H776 16Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.H559H3068H6635H8085H1697H5030H5012H1891H1696H2377H3820H6310H3068 17They continually say to those who despise Me, 'The LORD has said, "You shall have peace"'; And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, 'No evil shall come upon you.'"H559H559H5006H3068H1696H7965H559H1980H8307H3820H7451H935 18For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, And has perceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard it?H5975H5475H3068H7200H8085H1697H7181H1697H8085 19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury—A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.H5591H3068H3318H2534H2342H5591H2342H7218H7563 20The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.H639H3068H7725H6213H6965H4209H3820H319H3117H995H998 21"I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.H7971H5030H7323H1696H5012 22But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have turned them from their evil way And from the evil of their doings.H5975H5475H5971H8085H1697H7725H7451H1870H7455H4611 23"Am I a God near at hand," says the LORD, "And not a God afar off?H430H7138H5002H3068H430H7350 24Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?" says the LORD; "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" says the LORD.H376H5641H4565H7200H5002H3068H4392H8064H776H5002H3068 25"I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'H8085H5030H559H5012H8267H8034H559H2492H2492 26"How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,H3426H3820H5030H5012H8267H5030H8649H3820 27"who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.H2803H5971H7911H8034H2472H5608H376H7453H1H7911H8034H1168 28"The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?" says the LORD.H5030H2472H5608H2472H1697H1696H1697H571H8401H1250H5002H3068 29"Is not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?H1697H3541H784H5002H3068H6360H6327H5553H6327 30"Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who steal My words every one from his neighbor.H5030H5002H3068H1589H1697H376H7453 31"Behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who use their tongues and say, 'He says.'H5030H5002H3068H3947H3956H5001H5002 32"Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," says the LORD, "and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all," says the LORD.H5012H8267H2472H5002H3068H5608H5971H8582H8267H6350H7971H6680H3276H5971H3276H5002H3068 33"So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, 'What is the oracle of the LORD?' you shall then say to them, 'What oracle?' I will even forsake you," says the LORD.H5971H5030H3548H7592H559H4853H3068H559H4853H5203H5002H3068 34"And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, 'The oracle of the LORD!' I will even punish that man and his house.H5030H3548H5971H559H4853H3068H6485H376H1004 35"Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, 'What has the LORD answered?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'H559H376H7453H376H251H3068H6030H3068H1696 36"And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For every man's word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.H4853H3068H2142H376H1697H4853H2015H1697H2416H430H3068H6635H430 37"Thus you shall say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'H559H5030H3068H6030H3068H1696 38"But since you say, 'The oracle of the LORD!' therefore thus says the LORD: 'Because you say this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" and I have sent to you, saying, "Do not say, 'The oracle of the LORD!'"H518H559H4853H3068H559H3068H559H1697H4853H3068H7971H559H559H4853H3068 39'therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and will cast you out of My presence.H5377H5382H5203H5892H5414H1H6440 40'And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"H5414H5769H2781H5769H3640H7911


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