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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 wine hath overcome ,
because of the LORD ,
and because of the words of his holiness .
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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 evil ,
and their force is not right .
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For both prophet and priest are profane ;
yea ,
in my house have I found their wickedness ,
saith the LORD .
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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 evil upon them ,
even the year of their visitation ,
saith the LORD .
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And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria ;
they prophesied in Baal ,
and caused my people Israel to err .
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I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing :
they commit adultery ,
and walk in lies :
they strengthen also the hands of evildoers ,
that none doth return from his wickedness :
they are all of them unto me as Sodom ,
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah .
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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 profaneness gone forth into all the land .
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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 .
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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 evil shall come upon you .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 days ye shall consider it perfectly .
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I have not sent these 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 should have turned them from their evil way ,
and from the evil of their doings .
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Am I a God at hand ,
saith the LORD ,
and not a God afar off ?
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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 .
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I have heard what the prophets said ,
that prophesy lies in my name ,
saying ,
I have dreamed ,
I have dreamed .
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How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies ?
yea ,
they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart ;
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Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour ,
as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal .
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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 wheat ?
saith the LORD .
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Is not my word like as a fire ?
saith the LORD ;
and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
saith the LORD ,
that steal my words every one from his neighbour .
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Behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
saith the LORD ,
that use their tongues ,
and say ,
He saith .
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Behold ,
I am against them that prophesy false dreams ,
saith the LORD ,
and do tell them ,
and cause my people to err by their lies ,
and by their lightness ;
yet I sent them not ,
nor commanded them :
therefore they shall not profit this people at all ,
saith the LORD .