nkjv Jeremiah:23:9-32 SEEK
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My 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 has overcome ,
Because of the LORD ,
And because of His holy words .
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For the land is full of adulterers ;
For because of a curse the land mourns .
The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up .
Their course of life is evil ,
And their might is not right .
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For both prophet and priest are profane ;
Yes ,
in My house I have found their wickedness ,"
says the LORD .
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Therefore their way shall be to them Like slippery ways ;
In the darkness they shall be driven on And fall in them ;
For I will bring disaster on them ,
The year of their punishment ,"
says the LORD .
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And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria :
They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err .
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Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem :
They commit adultery and walk in lies ;
They also strengthen the hands of evildoers ,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness .
All of them are like Sodom to Me ,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah .
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Therefore thus says 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 Profaneness has gone out into all the land ."'
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Thus says the LORD of hosts : "
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you .
They make you worthless ;
They speak a vision of their own heart ,
Not from the mouth of the LORD .
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They continually say to those who despise Me , "
The LORD has said , "
You shall have peace "';
And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart ,
they say , "
No evil shall come upon you ."'
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For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD ,
And has perceived and heard His word ?
Who has marked His word and heard it ?
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Behold ,
a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury --
A violent whirlwind !
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked .
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The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart .
In the latter days you will understand 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 would have turned them from their evil way And from the evil of their doings .
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Am I a God near at hand ,"
says the LORD , "
And not a God afar off ?
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Can anyone hide himself in secret places ,
So I shall not see him ?"
says the LORD ; "
Do I not fill heaven and earth ?"
says the LORD .
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I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name ,
saying , "
I have dreamed ,
I have dreamed !'
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How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies ?
Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart ,
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who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor ,
as their fathers forgot 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 is the chaff to the wheat ?"
says the LORD .
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Is not My word like a fire ?"
says the LORD , "
And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces ?
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Therefore behold ,
I am against the prophets ,"
says the LORD , "
who steal My words every one from his neighbor .
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Behold ,
I am against the prophets ,"
says the LORD , "
who use their tongues and say , "
He says .'
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Behold ,
I am against those who prophesy false dreams ,"
says the LORD , "
and tell them ,
and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness .
Yet I did not send them or command them ;
therefore they shall not profit this people at all ,"
says the LORD .