Jeremiah 23
23Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.H1945H7462H6H6327H6629H4830H5002H30682Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD.H559H3068H430H3478H7462H7462H5971H6327H6629H5080H6485H6485H7455H4611H5002H30683Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.H6908H7611H6629H776H5080H7725H5116H6509H72354I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the LORD.H6965H7462H7462H3372H2865H6485H5002H30685The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.H3117H935H5002H3068H6965H1732H6662H6780H4428H4427H7919H6213H4941H6666H7766In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: "The LORD is our righteousness."H3117H3063H3467H3478H7931H983H8034H7121H30727Therefore, the days are surely coming, says the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, "As the LORD lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,"H3117H935H5002H3068H559H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H47148but "As the LORD lives who brought out and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where he had driven them." Then they shall live in their own land.H3068H2416H5927H935H2233H1004H3478H6828H776H776H5080H3427H1279Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me, all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.H3820H7130H7665H5030H6106H7363H7910H376H1397H3196H5674H6440H3068H1697H694410For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course has been evil, and their might is not right.H776H4390H5003H6440H423H776H56H4999H4057H3001H4794H7451H136911Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.H5030H3548H2610H1004H4672H7451H5002H306812Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall; for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, says the LORD.H1870H2519H653H1760H5307H935H7451H8141H6486H5002H306813In the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.H7200H8604H5030H8111H5012H1168H5971H3478H858214But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a more shocking thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.H7200H5030H3389H8186H5003H1980H8267H2388H3027H7489H376H7725H7451H5467H3427H601715Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "I am going to make them eat wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land."H559H3068H6635H5030H398H3939H8248H4325H7219H5030H3389H2613H3318H77616Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are deluding you. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.H559H3068H6635H8085H1697H5030H5012H1891H1696H2377H3820H6310H306817They keep saying to those who despise the word of the LORD, "It shall be well with you"; and to all who stubbornly follow their own stubborn hearts, they say, "No calamity shall come upon you."H559H559H5006H3068H1696H7965H559H1980H8307H3820H7451H93518For who has stood in the council of the LORD so as to see and to hear his word? Who has given heed to his word so as to proclaim it?H5975H5475H3068H7200H8085H1697H7181H1697H808519Look, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.H5591H3068H3318H2534H2342H5591H2342H7218H756320The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.H639H3068H7725H6213H6965H4209H3820H319H3117H995H99821I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.H7971H5030H7323H1696H501222But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.H5975H5475H5971H8085H1697H7725H7451H1870H7455H461123Am I a God near by, says the LORD, and not a God far off?H430H7138H5002H3068H430H735024Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.H376H5641H4565H7200H5002H3068H4392H8064H776H5002H306825I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed!"H8085H5030H559H5012H8267H8034H559H2492H249226How long? Will the hearts of the prophets ever turn back—those who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart?H3426H3820H5030H5012H8267H5030H8649H382027They plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, just as their ancestors forgot my name for Baal.H2803H5971H7911H8034H2472H5608H376H7453H1H7911H8034H116828Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let the one who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the LORD.H5030H2472H5608H2472H1697H1696H1697H571H8401H1250H5002H306829Is not my word like fire, says the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?H1697H3541H784H5002H3068H6360H6327H5553H632730See, therefore, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words from one another.H5030H5002H3068H1589H1697H376H745331See, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their own tongues and say, "Says the LORD."H5030H5002H3068H3947H3956H5001H500232See, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them, and who lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or appoint them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the LORD.H5012H8267H2472H5002H3068H5608H5971H8582H8267H6350H7971H6680H3276H5971H3276H5002H306833When this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, "What is the burden of the LORD?" you shall say to them, "You are the burden, and I will cast you off, says the LORD."H5971H5030H3548H7592H559H4853H3068H559H4853H5203H5002H306834And as for the prophet, priest, or the people who say, "The burden of the LORD," I will punish them and their households.H5030H3548H5971H559H4853H3068H6485H376H100435Thus shall you say to one another, among yourselves, "What has the LORD answered?" or "What has the LORD spoken?"H559H376H7453H376H251H3068H6030H3068H169636But "the burden of the LORD" you shall mention no more, for the burden is everyone's own word, and so you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.H4853H3068H2142H376H1697H4853H2015H1697H2416H430H3068H6635H43037Thus you shall ask the prophet, "What has the LORD answered you?" or "What has the LORD spoken?"H559H5030H3068H6030H3068H169638But if you say, "the burden of the LORD," thus says the LORD: Because you have said these words, "the burden of the LORD," when I sent to you, saying, You shall not say, "the burden of the LORD,"H518H559H4853H3068H559H3068H559H1697H4853H3068H7971H559H559H4853H306839therefore, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your ancestors.H5377H5382H5203H5892H5414H1H644040And I will bring upon you everlasting disgrace and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.H5414H5769H2781H5769H3640H7911
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