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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 has overcome ,
because of Yahweh ,
and because of his holy words .
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For the land is full of adulterers ;
for because of swearing the land mourns ;
the pastures of the wilderness are dried up .
Their course is evil ,
and their might is not right ;
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for both prophet and priest are profane ;
yes ,
in my house have I found their wickedness ,
says Yahweh .
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Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness :
they shall be driven on ,
and fall therein ;
for I will bring evil on them ,
even the year of their visitation ,
says Yahweh .
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I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria ;
they prophesied by Baal ,
and caused my people Israel to err .
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In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing :
they commit adultery ,
and walk in lies ;
and they strengthen the hands of evildoers ,
so that none does return from his wickedness :
they are all of them become to me as Sodom ,
and its inhabitants as Gomorrah .
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Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies 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 .
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Thus says Yahweh of Armies ,
Don '
t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you :
they teach you vanity ;
they speak a vision of their own heart ,
and not out of the mouth of Yahweh .
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They say continually to those who despise me ,
Yahweh has said ,
You shall have peace ;
and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say ,
No evil shall come on you .
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For who has stood in the council of Yahweh ,
that he should perceive and hear his word ?
who has marked my word ,
and heard it ?
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Behold ,
the storm of Yahweh ,
his wrath ,
has gone forth .
Yes ,
a whirling storm .
It shall burst on the head of the wicked .
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The anger of Yahweh shall not return ,
until he has executed ,
and until he have performed the intents of his heart :
in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly .
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I sent not these prophets ,
yet they ran :
I didn '
t speak to them ,
yet they prophesied .
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But if they had stood in my council ,
then had they caused my people to hear my words ,
and had turned them from their evil way ,
and from the evil of their doings .
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Am I a God at hand ,
says Yahweh ,
and not a God afar off ?
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Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him ?
says Yahweh .
Don '
t I fill heaven and earth ?
says Yahweh .
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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 shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies ,
even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart ?
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who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to 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 straw to the wheat ?
says Yahweh .
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Isn '
t my word like fire ?
says Yahweh ;
and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces ?
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Therefore behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
says Yahweh ,
who steal my words everyone from his neighbor .
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Behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
says Yahweh ,
who use their tongues ,
and say ,
He says .
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Behold ,
I am against those who prophesy lying dreams ,
says Yahweh ,
and do tell them ,
and cause my people to err by their lies ,
and by their vain boasting :
yet I didn '
t send them ,
nor commanded them ;
neither do they profit this people at all ,
says Yahweh .