Jeremiah:23:9-32
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My heart within me is broken concerning the prophets ;
all my bones shake .
I am like a drunken man ,
and like a man overcome by wine ,
because of Jehovah ,
and because of the words of His holiness .
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For the land is full of adulterers .
For the land mourns because of a curse .
The pastures of the wilderness are dried up .
And their course is evil ,
and their might is not right .
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For both prophet and priest are ungodly ;
yea ,
I have found their evil in My house ,
says Jehovah .
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So their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness ;
they shall be driven out and fall by it .
For I will bring evil on them ,
the year of their judgment ,
says Jehovah .
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And I have seen frivolity among the prophets of Samaria ;
they prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray .
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I have also seen a horrible thing among the prophets of Jerusalem ;
they commit adultery and walk in falsehood .
And they make the hands of evildoers strong ,
so that not a man returns from his evil .
They are all of them like Sodom to Me ,
and her inhabitants like Gomorrah .
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So Jehovah of Hosts says this concerning the prophets :
Behold ,
I will feed them wormwood ,
and make them drink poisonous water ,
for ungodliness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land .
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So says Jehovah of hosts ,
do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you ;
they make you vain ;
they speak a vision of their own heart ,
not out of the mouth of Jehovah .
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They say to those who despise Me ,
Jehovah has said ,
You shall have peace .
And they say to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart ,
Evil shall not come on you .
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For who has stood in the counsel of Jehovah ,
and has seen and heard His word ?
Who has listened to His word and heard ?
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Behold ,
the tempest of Jehovah has gone forth in fury ,
even a whirling tempest .
It will whirl on the head of the wicked .
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The anger of Jehovah shall not turn back until He has executed ,
and until He has set up the purposes of His heart .
In latter days you shall understand it perfectly .
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I have not sent the prophets ,
yet they ran ;
I have not spoken to them ,
yet they prophesied .
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But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My words ,
then they would have turned them from their evil way ,
and from the evil of their doings .
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Am I a God near by ,
says Jehovah ,
and not a God from afar ?
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Or can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I do not see him ,
says Jehovah ?
Do I not fill the heavens and the earth ,
says Jehovah ?
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I have heard what the prophets said ,
those who prophesy lies in My name ,
saying ,
I have dreamed ,
I have dreamed .
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How long is this there in the heart of the prophets ,
the prophets of lies ;
yea ,
the prophets of the deceit of their own heart ?
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They plot to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell ,
each one to his neighbor ,
even as their fathers have forgotten My name for Baal .
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The prophet who has a dream ,
let him tell a dream .
And he who has My word ,
let him speak My word faithfully .
What has the straw to do with the grain ,
says Jehovah ?
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Is not My word thus like fire ,
says Jehovah ,
and like a hammer which breaks a rock in pieces ?
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Then ,
Jehovah says ,
Behold ,
I am against the prophets who steal My words ,
each one from his neighbor .
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Jehovah says ,
Behold ,
I am against the prophets who use their tongues and say ,
He says .
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Jehovah says ,
Behold ,
I am against those who prophesy false dreams ,
and tell them ,
and cause My people to go astray by their lies ,
and by their frivolity .
Yet I did not send them nor command them .
And they will not profit this people at all ,
says Jehovah .
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