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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 hath overcome ;
because of Jehovah ,
and because of the words of his holiness .
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For the land is full of adulterers ;
for because of execration the land mourneth .
The pastures of the wilderness are dried up ;
for their course is evil ,
and their force is not right .
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For both prophet and priest are profane :
even in my house have I found their wickedness ,
saith Jehovah .
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Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness ;
they shall be driven on ,
and fall therein :
for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation ,
saith Jehovah .
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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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And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing :
they commit adultery ,
and walk in falsehood ,
and strengthen the hands of evildoers ,
so that none doth return from his wickedness .
They are all become unto me as Sodom ,
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah .
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Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets :
Behold ,
I will feed them with wormwood ,
and make them drink water of gall ;
for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land .
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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts :
Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you :
they lead you to vanity ;
they speak a vision of their own heart ,
not out of the mouth of Jehovah .
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They say constantly unto them that despise me ,
Jehovah hath said ,
Ye shall have peace .
And they say unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart ,
No evil shall come upon you .
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For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah ,
so that he hath perceived and heard his word ?
who hath hearkened to his word and listened ?
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Behold ,
a tempest of Jehovah ,
fury is gone forth ,
yea ,
a whirling storm :
it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked .
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The anger of Jehovah shall not return ,
until he have executed ,
and until he have performed the purposes of his heart :
at the end of the days ye shall understand it clearly .
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I did not send 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 council ,
and had caused my people to hear my words ,
then would they have turned them from their evil way and from the wickedness of their doings .
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Am I a God at hand ,
saith Jehovah ,
and not a God afar off ?
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Can any hide himself in secret places ,
that I shall not see him ?
saith Jehovah .
Do not I fill the heavens and the earth ?
saith Jehovah .
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I have heard what the prophets say ,
who prophesy falsehood 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 falsehood ,
and who are 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 neighbour :
as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal .
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The prophet that hath a dream ,
let him tell the dream ;
and he that hath my word ,
let him speak my word faithfully .
What is the chaff to the wheat ?
saith Jehovah .
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Is not my word like a fire ,
saith Jehovah ;
and like a hammer [
that ]
breaketh the rock in pieces ?
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
saith Jehovah ,
that steal my words every one from his neighbour .
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Behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
saith Jehovah ,
that use their tongues ,
and say ,
He hath said .
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Behold ,
I am against them that prophesy false dreams ,
saith Jehovah ,
and that tell them ,
and cause my people to err by their lies and by their boasting ;
and I have not sent them ,
nor commanded them ;
and they profit not this people at all ,
saith Jehovah .