Jeremiah:23:9-32
bes@Jeremiah:23:9 @ My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken: I am become as a broken-down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of his glory.
bes@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For because of these (note:)Gr. prophets(:note) things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and Hebrews. and Alex. not so so also their strength.
bes@Jeremiah:23:11 @ For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.
bes@Jeremiah:23:12 @ Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.
bes@Jeremiah:23:13 @ And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led my people Israel astray.
bes@Jeremiah:23:14 @ Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened (note:)Alex. the hands of evil-doers(:note) the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way: they are all become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.
bes@Jeremiah:23:15 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth into all the land.
bes@Jeremiah:23:16 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets: for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.
bes@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon thee.
bes@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has hearkened, and heard?
bes@Jeremiah:23:19 @ Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come (note:)Gr. whirled round as from a sling, etc.(:note) violently upon the ungodly.
bes@Jeremiah:23:20 @ And the Lord’s wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.
bes@Jeremiah:23:21 @ I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.
bes@Jeremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had hearkened to my words, then would they have turned my people from their evil practices.
bes@Jeremiah:23:23 @ I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.
bes@Jeremiah:23:24 @ Shall any one hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
bes@Jeremiah:23:25 @ I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.
bes@Jeremiah:23:26 @ How long shall these things be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?
bes@Jeremiah:23:27 @ who devise that men may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name in the worship of Baal.
bes@Jeremiah:23:28 @ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is my word spoken to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, saith the Lord.
bes@Jeremiah:23:29 @ Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?
bes@Jeremiah:23:30 @ Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
bes@Jeremiah:23:31 @ Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep.
bes@Jeremiah:23:32 @ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. omit the negative(:note) not told them truly, and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.
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