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Jeremiah 23
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Hope for the Future

23How terrible will be the LORD's judgment on those rulers who destroy and scatter his people!H1945H7462H6H6327H6629H4830H5002H3068
2This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the rulers who were supposed to take care of his people: "You have not taken care of my people; you have scattered them and driven them away. Now I am going to punish you for the evil you have done.H559H3068H430H3478H7462H7462H5971H6327H6629H5080H6485H6485H7455H4611H5002H3068
3I will gather the rest of my people from the countries where I have scattered them, and I will bring them back to their homeland. They will have many children and increase in number.H6908H7611H6629H776H5080H7725H5116H6509H7235
4I will appoint rulers to take care of them. My people will no longer be afraid or terrified, and I will not punish them again. I, the LORD, have spoken."H6965H7462H7462H3372H2865H6485H5002H3068
5The LORD says, "The time is coming when I will choose as king a righteous descendant of David. That king will rule wisely and do what is right and just throughout the land.H3117H935H5002H3068H6965H1732H6662H6780H4428H4427H7919H6213H4941H6666H776
6When he is king, the people of Judah will be safe, and the people of Israel will live in peace. He will be called 'The LORD Our Salvation.'H3117H3063H3467H3478H7931H983H8034H7121H3072
7"The time is coming," says the LORD, "when people will no longer swear by me as the living God who brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.H3117H935H5002H3068H559H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H4714
8Instead, they will swear by me as the living God who brought the people of Israel out of a northern land and out of all the other countries where I had scattered them. Then they will live in their own land."H3068H2416H5927H935H2233H1004H3478H6828H776H776H5080H3427H127

Jeremiah’s Message about the Prophets

9My heart is crushed, and I am trembling. Because of the LORD, because of his holy words, I am like a man who is drunk, someone who has had too much wine.H3820H7130H7665H5030H6106H7363H7910H376H1397H3196H5674H6440H3068H1697H6944
10The land is full of people unfaithful to the LORD; they live wicked lives and misuse their power. Because of the LORD's curse the land mourns and the pastures are dry.H776H4390H5003H6440H423H776H56H4999H4057H3001H4794H7451H1369
11The LORD says, "The prophets and the priests are godless; I have caught them doing evil in the Temple itself.H5030H3548H2610H1004H4672H7451H5002H3068
12The paths they follow will be slippery and dark; I will make them stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them; the time of their punishment is coming. I, the LORD, have spoken.H1870H2519H653H1760H5307H935H7451H8141H6486H5002H3068
13I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets: they have spoken in the name of Baal and have led my people astray.H7200H8604H5030H8111H5012H1168H5971H3478H8582
14But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.H7200H5030H3389H8186H5003H1980H8267H2388H3027H7489H376H7725H7451H5467H3427H6017
15"So then, this is what I, the LORD Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem: I will give them bitter plants to eat and poison to drink, because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land."H559H3068H6635H5030H398H3939H8248H4325H7219H5030H3389H2613H3318H776
16The LORD Almighty said to the people of Jerusalem, "Do not listen to what the prophets say; they are filling you with false hopes. They tell you what they have imagined and not what I have said.H559H3068H6635H8085H1697H5030H5012H1891H1696H2377H3820H6310H3068
17To the people who refuse to listen to what I have said, they keep saying that all will go well with them. And they tell everyone who is stubborn that disaster will never touch them."H559H559H5006H3068H1696H7965H559H1980H8307H3820H7451H935
18I said, "None of these prophets has ever known the LORD's secret thoughts. None of them has ever heard or understood his message, or ever listened or paid attention to what he said.H5975H5475H3068H7200H8085H1697H7181H1697H8085
19His anger is a storm, a furious wind that will rage over the heads of the wicked,H5591H3068H3318H2534H2342H5591H2342H7218H7563
20and it will not end until he has done everything he intends to do. In days to come his people will understand this clearly."H639H3068H7725H6213H6965H4209H3820H319H3117H995H998
21The LORD said, "I did not send these prophets, but even so they went. I did not give them any message, but still they spoke in my name.H7971H5030H7323H1696H5012
22If they had known my secret thoughts, then they could have proclaimed my message to my people and could have made them give up the evil lives they live and the wicked things they do.H5975H5475H5971H8085H1697H7725H7451H1870H7455H4611
23"I am a God who is everywhere and not in one place only.H430H7138H5002H3068H430H7350
24No one can hide where I cannot see them. Do you not know that I am everywhere in heaven and on earth?H376H5641H4565H7200H5002H3068H4392H8064H776H5002H3068
25I know what those prophets have said who speak lies in my name and claim that I have given them my messages in their dreams.H8085H5030H559H5012H8267H8034H559H2492H2492
26How much longer will those prophets mislead my people with the lies they have invented?H3426H3820H5030H5012H8267H5030H8649H3820
27They think that the dreams they tell will make my people forget me, just as their ancestors forgot me and turned to Baal.H2803H5971H7911H8034H2472H5608H376H7453H1H7911H8034H1168
28The prophet who has had a dream should say it is only a dream, but the prophet who has heard my message should proclaim that message faithfully. What good is straw compared with wheat?H5030H2472H5608H2472H1697H1696H1697H571H8401H1250H5002H3068
29My message is like a fire and like a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces.H1697H3541H784H5002H3068H6360H6327H5553H6327
30I am against those prophets who take each other's words and proclaim them as my message.H5030H5002H3068H1589H1697H376H7453
31I am also against those prophets who speak their own words and claim they came from me.H5030H5002H3068H3947H3956H5001H5002
32Listen to what I, the LORD, say! I am against the prophets who tell their dreams that are full of lies. They tell these dreams and lead my people astray with their lies and their boasting. I did not send them or order them to go, and they are of no help at all to the people. I, the LORD, have spoken."H5012H8267H2472H5002H3068H5608H5971H8582H8267H6350H7971H6680H3276H5971H3276H5002H3068

The Lord’s Burden

33The LORD said to me, "Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, 'What is the LORD's message?' you are to say, 'You are a burden to the LORD, and he is going to get rid of you.'H5971H5030H3548H7592H559H4853H3068H559H4853H5203H5002H3068
34If any of my people or a prophet or a priest even uses the words 'the LORD's burden,' I will punish them and their families.H5030H3548H5971H559H4853H3068H6485H376H1004
35Instead, each one of them should ask their friends and their relatives, 'What answer has the LORD given? What has the LORD said?'H559H376H7453H376H251H3068H6030H3068H1696
36So they must no longer use the words 'the LORD's burden,' because if any of them do, I will make my message a real burden to them. The people have perverted the words of their God, the living God, the LORD Almighty.H4853H3068H2142H376H1697H4853H2015H1697H2416H430H3068H6635H430
37Jeremiah, ask the prophets, 'What answer did the LORD give you? What did the LORD say?'H559H5030H3068H6030H3068H1696
38And if they disobey my command and use the words 'the LORD's burden,' then tell them thatH518H559H4853H3068H559H3068H559H1697H4853H3068H7971H559H559H4853H3068
39I will certainly pick them up and throw them far away from me, both them and the city that I gave to them and their ancestors.H5377H5382H5203H5892H5414H1H6440
40I will bring on them everlasting shame and disgrace that will never be forgotten."H5414H5769H2781H5769H3640H7911


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