Jeremiah:23

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* Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture ! saith the LORD . * Therefore thus saith the LORD , the God of Israel , against the shepherds that feed My people : Ye have scattered My flock , and driven them away , and have not taken care of them ; behold , I will visit upon you the evil of your doings , saith the LORD . * And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them , and will bring them back to their folds ; and they shall be fruitful and multiply . * And I will set up shepherds over them , who shall feed them ; and they shall fear no more , nor be dismayed , neither shall any be lacking , saith the LORD . * Behold , the days come , saith the LORD , that I will raise unto David a righteous shoot , and he shall reign as king and prosper , and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land . * In his days Judah shall be saved , and Israel shall dwell safely ; and this is his name whereby he shall be called , The LORD is our righteousness . * Therefore , behold , the days come , saith the LORD , that they shall no more say : 'As the LORD liveth , that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt '; * but : 'As the LORD liveth , that brought up and that led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country , and from all the countries whither I had driven them '; and they shall dwell in their own land . * Concerning the prophets . My heart within me is broken , all my bones shake ; I am like a drunken man , and like a man whom wine hath overcome ; because of the LORD , and because of His holy words . * For the land is full of adulterers ; for because of swearing the land mourneth , the pastures of the wilderness are dried up ; and their course is evil , and their force is not right . * For both prophet and priest are ungodly ; yea , in My house have I found their wickedness , saith the LORD . * Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness , they shall be thrust , and fall therein ; for I will bring evil upon them , even the year of their visitation , saith the LORD . * And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria : they prophesied by Baal , and caused My people Israel to err . * But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing : they commit adultery , and walk in lies , and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers , that none doth return from his wickedness ; they are all of them become unto Me as Sodom , and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah . * Therefore thus saith 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 is ungodliness gone forth into all the land . * Thus saith the LORD of hosts : Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you , they lead you unto vanity ; they speak a vision of their own heart , and not out of the mouth of the LORD . * They say continually unto them that despise Me : 'The LORD hath said : Ye shall have peace '; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say : 'No evil shall come upon you '; * For who hath stood in the council of the LORD , that he should perceive and hear His word ? Who hath attended to His word , and heard it ? * Behold , a storm of the LORD is gone forth in fury , yea , a whirling storm ; it shall whirl upon the head of the wicked . * The anger of the LORD shall not return , until He have executed , and till He have performed the purposes of His heart ; in the end of days ye shall consider it perfectly . * I have not sent these prophets , yet they ran ; I have not spoken to them , yet they prophesied . * But if they have stood in My council , then let them cause My people to hear My words , and turn them from their evil way , and from the evil of their doings . * Am I a God near at hand , saith the LORD , and not a God afar off ? * Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the LORD . Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the LORD . * I have heard what the prophets have said , that prophesy lies in My name , saying : 'I have dreamed , I have dreamed .' * How long shall this be ? Is it in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies , and the prophets of the deceit of their own heart ? * That think to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour , as their fathers forgot My name for Baal . * The prophet that hath a dream , let him tell a dream ; and he that hath My word ; let him speak My word faithfully . What hath the straw to do with the wheat ? saith the LORD . * Is not My word like as fire ? saith the LORD ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? * Therefore , behold , I am against the prophets , saith the LORD , that steal My words every one from his neighbour . * Behold , I am against the prophets , saith the LORD , that use their tongues and say : 'He saith .' * Behold , I am against them that prophesy lying dreams , saith the LORD , and do tell them , and cause My people to err by their lies , and by their wantonness ; yet I sent them not , nor commanded them ; neither can they profit this people at all , saith the LORD . * And when this people , or the prophet , or a priest , shall ask thee , saying : 'What is the burden of the LORD ?' then shalt thou say unto them : 'What burden ! I will cast you off , saith the LORD .' * 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 house . * 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 ?' * And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more ; for every man 's own word shall be his burden ; and would ye pervert the words of the living God , of the LORD of hosts our God ? * Thus shalt thou say to the prophet : 'What hath the LORD answered thee ?' and : 'What hath the LORD spoken ?' * But if 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 '; * therefore , behold , I will utterly tear you out , and I will cast you off , and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers , away from My presence ; * and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you , and a perpetual shame , which shall not be forgotten .

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