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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!" declares the LORD. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: "Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done," declares the LORD. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the LORD. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"So then, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when people will no longer say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,' |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8but they will say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.' Then they will live in their own land." |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like a strong man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and his holy words. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness," declares the LORD. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the year they are punished," declares the LORD. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Among the prophets of Samaria I saw this repulsive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that not one of them turns from their wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah." |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says concerning the prophets: "I will make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land." |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They keep saying to those who despise me, 'The LORD says: You will have peace.' And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, 'No harm will come to you.' |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word? |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand it clearly. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away? |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, 'I had a dream! I had a dream!' |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Let the prophet who has a dream recount the dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?" declares the LORD. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Is not my word like fire," declares the LORD, "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"Therefore," declares the LORD, "I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Yes," declares the LORD, "I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, 'The LORD declares.' |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," declares the LORD. "They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least," declares the LORD. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, 'What is the message from the LORD?' say to them, 'What message? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.' |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, 'This is a message from the LORD,' I will punish them and their household. |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35This is what each of you keeps saying to your friends and other Israelites: 'What is the LORD's answer?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?' |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36But you must not mention 'a message from the LORD' again, because each one's word becomes their own message. So you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God. |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37This is what you keep saying to a prophet: 'What is the LORD's answer to you?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?' |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Although you claim, 'This is a message from the LORD,' this is what the LORD says: You used the words, 'This is a message from the LORD,' even though I told you that you must not claim, 'This is a message from the LORD.' |
39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Therefore, I will surely forget you and cast you out of my presence along with the city I gave to you and your ancestors. |
40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40I will bring on you everlasting disgrace--everlasting shame that will not be forgotten." |
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