Jeremiah Chapter 23
23:1 | Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the ![]() |
23:2 | Therefore thus saith the LORD God of ![]() ![]() |
23:3 | And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. |
23:4 | And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. |
23:5 | Behold, the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
23:6 | In his ![]() ![]() |
23:7 | Therefore, behold, the ![]() ![]() |
23:8 | But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the ![]() ![]() |
23:9 | Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom ![]() |
23:10 | For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is ![]() |
23:11 | For both prophet and priest are profane; ![]() ![]() |
23:12 | Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring ![]() |
23:13 | And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people ![]() |
23:14 | I have seen also in the prophets of ![]() |
23:15 | Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them ![]() ![]() ![]() |
23:16 | Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD. |
23:17 | They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No ![]() |
23:18 | For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]? |
23:19 | Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. |
23:20 | The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter ![]() |
23:21 | I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. |
23:22 | But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their ![]() ![]() |
23:23 | [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? |
23:24 | Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not ![]() ![]() ![]() |
23:25 | I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. |
23:26 | How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? ![]() |
23:27 | Which ![]() |
23:28 | The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the ![]() |
23:29 | [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces? |
23:30 | Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. |
23:31 | Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. |
23:32 | Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and ![]() |
23:33 | And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. |
23:34 | And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his ![]() |
23:35 | Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? |
23:36 | And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man' word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. |
23:37 | Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? |
23:38 | But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; |
23:39 | Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out of my presence: |
23:40 | And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. |