Jeremiah:23

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* Woe be unto the pastors that waste and scatter the sheep of my pasture ! said the LORD . * Therefore thus hath the LORD God of Israel said unto the pastors that feed my people : Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them ; behold , [I ]visit upon you the evil of your doings , said the LORD . * And I will gather the remnant of my sheep out of all the lands where I have driven them and will cause them to return to their folds ; and they shall be fruitful and increase . * 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 , said the LORD . * Behold , the days come , saith the LORD , that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch , and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth . * In his days Judah shall be saved , and Israel shall dwell safely : and this [shall be ] his name by which they shall call him , THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS . * Therefore , behold , the days come , said the LORD , and they shall no more say , The LORD lives , who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt ; * but , The LORD lives , who caused the seed of the house of Israel to come up and out of the land of the north [wind ], and from all the lands where I had driven them , and they shall dwell in their [own ] land . * My heart is broken within me because of the prophets , all my bones shake ; I was like a drunken man , and like a man whom wine has overcome , before the LORD , and before the words of his holiness . * For the land is full of adulterers ; for because of the oath the land is deserted ; the booths of the wilderness are dried up , and their course was evil , and their force [was ] not right . * For both prophet and priest are feigned ; even in my house I have found their wickedness , said the LORD . * Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways ] in the darkness ; they shall be driven on and fall therein ; for I will bring evil upon them , [even ] the year of their visitation , saith the LORD . * And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria ; they prophesied in Baal and caused my people Israel to err . * I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem : they committed adultery and walked by lies ; they strengthened also the hands of evildoers , that none is converted from his malice ; they are all of them unto me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah . * Therefore , thus hath the LORD of the hosts said against those prophets : Behold , I will cause them to eat wormwood and make them drink the waters of gall , for from the prophets of Jerusalem is hypocrisy gone forth upon all the land . * Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said , 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 . * They say boldly unto those that stir me to anger , The LORD hath said , Ye shall have peace ; and they say unto anyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart , No evil shall come upon you . * For who has stood in the secret of the LORD and has seen and heard his word ? Who has payed attention to his word and heard [it ]? * Behold , that the whirlwind of the LORD shall go forth with fury , and the whirlwind which is ready shall fall [grievously ] upon the head of the wicked . * The anger of the LORD shall not return until he has executed and until he has performed the thoughts of his heart : in the last of the days ye shall understand it with understanding . * [I ]did not send those prophets , yet they ran ; [I ] did not speak to them , yet they prophesied . * But if they had stood in my secret , they would also have caused my people to hear my words , and they would have caused them to return from their evil way and from the evil of their doings . * [Am ] I a God of the near [only ], said the LORD , and not a God of the far ? * Can any hide himself in hiding places that I shall not see him ? said the LORD . Do I not fill heaven and earth ? said the LORD . * I have heard what those prophets said , that prophesy lies in my name , saying , I have dreamed , I have dreamed . * How long shall [this ] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies and that prophesy the deceit of their own heart ? * Do they not think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which each one tells his neighbour , so much that their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal ? * The prophet with whom [the ] dream came , let him tell [the ] dream ; and he with whom my word came , let him speak my true word . What [is ] the chaff to the wheat ? said the LORD . * [Is ] not my word like as a fire ? saith the LORD ; and like a hammer [that ] breaks the rock in pieces ? * Therefore , behold , I [am ] against the prophets , saith the LORD , that steal my words each one from his neighbour . * Behold , I [am ] against the prophets , saith the LORD , that sweeten their tongues and say , He said . * Behold , I [am ] against those that prophesy false dreams , saith the LORD , and did tell them , and caused my people to err by their lies , and by their flattery ; yet I did not send them , nor command them ; and they did not profit this people at all , said the LORD . * And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask thee , saying , What [is ] the burden of the LORD ? thou shalt then say unto them , What burden ? I will forsake you , said the LORD . * And [as for ] the prophet and the priest and the people , that shall say , The burden of the LORD , I will visit upon that man and upon his house . * Thus shall ye say each one to his neighbour and each one to his brother , What has the LORD answered ? and , What has the LORD spoken ? * And never again shall it come to [your ] memory to say , The burden of the LORD ; for every man 's word shall be his burden ; for ye have perverted the words of the living God , of the LORD of the hosts , our God . * Thus shalt thou say to the prophet , What has the LORD answered thee ? and , What has the LORD spoken ? * But if ye say , The burden of the LORD ; therefore thus hath the LORD said : 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 , even I , will utterly forget you , and I will uproot you from my presence and the city that I gave you and your fathers : * and I will place an everlasting reproach upon you , and eternal shame , which shall never be forgotten .:

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