mkjv Jeremiah:23-25
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:1 @ Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:2 @ Therefore so says Jehovah, God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed My people, You have scattered My flock, and have driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will bring on you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:3 @ And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their fold. And they shall be fruitful and multiply.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:4 @ And I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. And they shall fear no more, nor be afraid; nor shall they lack [anything], says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:5 @ Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and act wisely, and shall do judgment and justice in the earth.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:6 @ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this [is] His name by which He shall be called, JEHOVAH, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:7 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, who brought the sons of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:8 @ but, The LORD lives, who brought up and led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I have driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:9 @ 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 the words of His holiness.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power [is] not right.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:11 @ For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:12 @ So their way shall be to them as slippery [ways] in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall in them; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their judgment, says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:13 @ And I have seen frivolity in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:14 @ I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in falsehood. They also strengthen to the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his evil; they are all of them like Sodom to Me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:15 @ So Jehovah of hosts says this concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:16 @ So says Jehovah of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision from their own heart, not out of the mouth of the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They still say to those who despise Me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace! And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, No evil shall come on you!
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hears His Word? Who has listened to His Word and heard [it]?
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:19 @ Behold, the tempest of the LORD has gone forth in fury, a whirling tempest. It shall whirl on the head of the wicked.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:20 @ The anger of the LORD shall not return, until He has done and until He has set up the purposes of His heart; in later days you shall understand it perfectly.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:21 @ I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in My wisdom 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.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:23 @ [Am] I a God near, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:24 @ Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill the heavens and earth? says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:25 @ I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:26 @ How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? But they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:27 @ who plot to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell, each one to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten My name for Baal.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:28 @ 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.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:29 @ [Is] not My Word like a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaks the rock in pieces?
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:30 @ So the LORD says, Behold, I [am] against the prophets who steal My words each one from his neighbor.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:31 @ The LORD says, Behold, I [am] against the prophets who use their tongues and say, He says.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:32 @ The LORD says, Behold, I [am] against those who prophesy false dreams and tell them, and cause My people to go astray by their lies and by their lightness. Yet I did not send them nor command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:33 @ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? You shall then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:34 @ And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:35 @ So you shall say each one to his neighbor, and each one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? And what has the LORD spoken?
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:36 @ And you shall mention the burden of the LORD no more. For every man's word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:37 @ So you shall say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? And what has the LORD spoken?
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:38 @ But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore so says the LORD, Because you say this word; the burden of the LORD; and I have sent to you saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:39 @ therefore, behold, I, even I, will completely forget you, and I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out of My presence.
mkjv@Jeremiah:23:40 @ And I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a never-ending shame, which shall not be forgotten.
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:1 @ The LORD caused me to see, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD (after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon);
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:2 @ one basket [had] very good figs, like the first ripe figs. And the other basket [had] very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:3 @ Then the LORD said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so that they cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:4 @ Again the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:5 @ So says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place [into] the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:6 @ For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:7 @ And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I [am] the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:8 @ And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely so says the LORD, So I will give to Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the rest of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt;
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:9 @ and I will even make them a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a proverb, a gibe and a curse, there in all places where I shall drive them.
mkjv@Jeremiah:24:10 @ And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are destroyed from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. It [was] the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:2 @ the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people of Jerusalem, saying,
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:3 @ From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that [is] the twenty-third year, the Word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking. But you have not listened.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:4 @ And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened nor bowed down your ear to hear.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:5 @ They said, Turn again now, each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:6 @ And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:7 @ Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD, so that you might provoke Me with the works of your hands, for harm to you.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:8 @ Therefore so says the LORD of hosts, Because you have not heard My words,
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:9 @ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:10 @ And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:11 @ And this whole land shall be a ruin [and] a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:12 @ And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and I will make it an everlasting ruin.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:13 @ And I will bring on that land all My words which I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:14 @ For many nations and great kings shall lay service on them also. And I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:15 @ For so says the LORD, the God of Israel, to me, Take the wine cup of this wrath at My hand, and cause all the nations to whom I shall send you to drink it.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:16 @ And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:17 @ Then I took the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:18 @ Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of them, and their rulers, to make them a ruin and a, a hissing, and a curse, (as [it is] today),
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:19 @ Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants, and his rulers, and all his people,
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:20 @ and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the rest of Ashdod;
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:21 @ Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon,
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:22 @ and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands beyond the sea,
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:23 @ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and those who] trim the edges [of their beards.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:24 @ and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the desert,
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:25 @ and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:26 @ and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:27 @ So you shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:28 @ And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, You shall certainly drink.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:29 @ For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by My name; and should you be found entirely without guilt? You shall not be without guilt. For I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:30 @ And prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation. He shall mightily roar over His dwelling place. He shall give a shout, like those who tread out grapes], against all the people of the earth.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:31 @ A noise shall come to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations; He will enter into judgment with all flesh. He will give those [who are] wicked to the sword, says the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:32 @ So says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be stirred up from the corners of the earth.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:33 @ And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth; they shall not be mourned, nor gathered, nor buried. They shall be [as] dung on the ground.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:34 @ Howl, shepherds, and cry; and roll, leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and of your scatterings are fulfilled; and you shall fall like a desirable vessel.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:35 @ And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the choice ones of the flock, to escape.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:36 @ A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the choice ones of the flock [shall be heard]; for the LORD has spoiled their pasture.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:37 @ And the peaceful pastures are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
mkjv@Jeremiah:25:38 @ Like the lion, He has left His den; for their land is wasted because of the oppressor's pressing fury, and because of His fierce anger.
mkjv@Jeremiah:26:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,
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