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Jeremiah 23:9 - 23:14

False Prophets Condemned

9
As for the prophets:
My heart is broken within me;
All my bones tremble;
I have become like a drunken man,
Even like a man overcome with wine,
Because of Yahweh
And because of His holy words.
10
For the land is full of adulterers;
For the land mourns because of the curse.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also 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,” declares Yahweh.
12
“Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them;
They will be driven away into the thick darkness and fall down in it;
For I will bring their evil upon them,
The year of their punishment,” declares Yahweh.

13
“Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing:
They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
14
Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen an appalling thing:
The committing of adultery and walking in lying;
And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his evil.
All of them have become to Me like Sodom,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.