The Character and Fate of the False Prophets

9 Concerning the prophets.

My heart within me is broken,

My bones are all grown soft;

Like a drunken man am I,

Like a man overcome of wine,

By reason of Jehovah

And of His glorious majesty.

10 For the land is full of adulterers

Who run an evil course,

And whose might is not of right.

11 For prophet and priest are profane:

Their wickedness I have witnessed

In Mine own very house, saith Jehovah.

12 The way they must tread shall be therefore

As slippery ground in the darkness,

Whereon they are thrust till they fall:

For I will bring evil upon them–

The year of their visitation.

13 In Samaria’s prophets I witnessed

Behaviour that was revolting;

They prophesied by the Baal

And seduced My people Israel.

14 But a horrible thing have I seen

In the prophets of Jerusalem–

Adultery, walking in falsehood,

And strengthening the hands of the wicked,

That no man doth turn from his wickedness.

They are all of them grown like Sodom,

And her citizens like Gomorrah.

15 Thus therefore concerning the prophets

Declareth Jehovah of Hosts:

Behold! I will feed them with wormwood,

And gall will I give them to drink;

For from Jerusalem’s prophets there spreadeth

Impiety over the land.