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Jeremiah 23

23 “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!”—the declaration of Yahweh. 2 “Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who are shepherding my people: ‘You, yourselves have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I am attending to you for the evil of your deeds’ ”—the declaration of Yahweh. 3 “And I, I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply. 4 And I will raise up shepherds over them, and they will shepherd them. And they will no longer fear, and they will not be dismayed, and none will be missing”—the declaration of Yahweh.

5 “Behold, days are coming”—the declaration of Yahweh—“when I will raise up for David a righteous branch,

and he shall reign as king and act wisely, and he shall do justice and righteousness in the land.

6 In his days Judah will be saved,

and Israel will dwell in safety.

And this is his name by which he will be called:

‘Yahweh is our righteousness.’ ”

7 “Therefore, behold, days are coming”—the declaration of Yahweh—“when they will no longer say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought the sons of Israel up from the land of Egypt,’ 8 but rather, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where I had driven them.’ And they will dwell in their own land.”

9 Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me;

all my bones tremble.

I have become like a drunken man,

and like a man whom wine has overcome,

because of the face of Yahweh

and because of the face of his holy words.

10 For the land is full of adulterers,

for because of the face of a curse the land mourns,

the pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

Their course is evil,

and their might is not right.

11 “For both prophet and priest are polluted;

even in my house I have found their evil”—the declaration of Yahweh.

12 “Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery places in the darkness;

they shall be pushed in and shall fall in it,

for I will bring disaster upon them,

in the year of their punishment”—the declaration of Yahweh.

13 “And among the prophets of Samaria I saw an impropriety:

they prophesied by Baal

and led my people Israel astray.

14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:

committing adultery and walking in falsehood.

And they have strengthened the hands of evildoers,

so that no man turns back from his evil.

All of them have become to me like Sodom,

and her inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

15 Therefore, thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets:

“Behold, I am making them eat wormwood

and making them drink water of poison,

for from the prophets of Jerusalem

pollution has gone out to all the land.”

16 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets

who are prophesying to you.

They are deluding you;

they are speaking a vision of their own heart,

not from the mouth of Yahweh.

17 Saying, they say to the ones despising me,

‘Yahweh has spoken: Peace will be for you.’

And to everyone walking in the stubbornness of his heart they have said,

‘Disaster will not come upon you.’ ”

18 For who has stood in the counsel of Yahweh

and seen and heard his word?

Who has paid attention to his word and listened?

19 Behold, a storm of Yahweh! Wrath has gone out,

and a whirling tempest—

upon the head of the wicked it will whirl.

20 The nose of Yahweh will not turn back

until he has done and until he has established

the intentions of his heart.

In the latter days

you will understand it with understanding.

21 “I did not send the prophets,

yet they, they ran.

I did not speak to them,

yet they, they prophesied.

22 But if they had stood in my counsel,

then they would have caused my people to hear my words,

and they would have turned them back from their evil way

and from the evil of their deeds.”

23 “Am I a God from near”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and not a God from far?

24 Can a man hide himself in secret places, so I will not see him?”—the declaration of Yahweh—

“Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?”—the declaration of Yahweh.

25 “I have heard what the prophets have said, the ones prophesying falsehood in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed! I have dreamed!’ 26 Until when will this be in the heart of the prophets, the ones prophesying falsehood and the prophets of the deceit of their heart? 27 The ones planning to make my people forget my name by their dreams which they recount, a man to his neighbor, just as their fathers forgot my name on account of Baal.

28 The prophet who has a dream with him, let him recount his dream, but the one who has my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. What to the straw with the grain?”—the declaration of Yahweh.

29 “Is not my word like fire?”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and like a hammer that shatters a rock?”

30 “Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets”—the declaration of Yahweh—“the ones stealing my words, a man from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets”—the declaration of Yahweh—“the ones taking their tongue and declaring a declaration. 32 Behold, I am against the ones prophesying dreams of falsehood”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and they have recounted them and lead my people astray by their falsehoods and by their recklessness, yet I, I did not send them, and I did not command them. So benefiting, they will not benefit this people”—the declaration of Yahweh.

33 “And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, saying, ‘What is the burden of Yahweh?’—then you shall say to them, ‘“What burden? And I will abandon you,” the declaration of Yahweh. 34 And the prophet and the priest and the people who say, “The burden of Yahweh,” I will punish that man and his house. 35 Thus you will say, a man to his neighbor and a man to his brother, “What has Yahweh answered?” or “What has Yahweh spoken?” 36 But “the burden of Yahweh” you shall not mention again, for the burden will be each man’s own word, for you have perverted the words of the living God, Yahweh of Armies, our God. 37 Thus you say to the prophet, “What has Yahweh answered you?” or “What has Yahweh spoken?” 38 But if you say, “The burden of Yahweh,” therefore thus says Yahweh: “Because you say this word, ‘The burden of Yahweh,’ when I sent to you, saying, ‘You shall not say, “The burden of Yahweh,’ ” 39 therefore, behold, I will surely forget you and abandon you and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, from at my face. 40 And I will put upon you everlasting reproach and everlasting shame that will not be forgotten.’ ”