Jeremiah 23:9-24 — Legacy Standard Bible

False Prophets Condemned

⁹As for the prophets:My ^aheart is broken within me;All my bones tremble;I have become like a drunken man,Even like a man overcome with wine,Because of YahwehAnd because of His holy words.¹⁰For the land is full of ^aadulterers;For the land ^bmourns because of the curse.The ^cpastures of the wilderness have dried up.Their course also is evil,And their might is not right.¹¹“For ^aboth prophet and priest are polluted;Even in My house I have found their evil,” declares Yahweh.¹²“Therefore their way will be like ^aslippery paths to them;They will be driven away into the ^bthick darkness and fall down in it;For I will bring their ^cevil upon them,The year of their ¹punishment,” declares Yahweh.¹³“Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an ^aoffensive thing:They ^bprophesied by Baal and ^cled My people Israel astray.¹⁴“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen an ^aappalling thing:The committing of ^badultery and walking in lying;And they strengthen the hands of ^cevildoers,So that no one has turned back from his evil.All of them have become to Me like ^dSodom,And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

¹⁵“Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets, ‘Behold, I am going to ^afeed them wormwoodAnd make them drink ¹poisoned water,For from the prophets of JerusalemPollution has gone forth into all the land.’”

¹⁶Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “^aDo not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.They are ^bleading you into vanity;They speak a ^cvision of their own heart,Not ^dfrom the mouth of Yahweh.

¹⁷“They keep saying to those who ^aspurn Me,‘Yahweh has said, “^bYou will have peace”’;And as for everyone who walks in the ^cstubbornness of his own heart,They say, ‘^dEvil will not come upon you.’¹⁸“But ^awho has stood in the council of Yahweh,That he should see and hear His word?Who has given ^bheed to ¹His word and heard?¹⁹“Behold, the ^astorm of Yahweh has gone forth in wrath,Even a whirling storm;It will whirl down on the head of the wicked.²⁰“The ^aanger of Yahweh will not turn backUntil He has ^bdone and established the purposes of His heart;^cIn the last days you will clearly understand it.²¹“^aI did not send these prophets,But they ran.I did not speak to them,But they prophesied.²²“But if they had ^astood in My council,Then they would have ^bcaused My words to be heard by My peopleAnd would have turned them back from their evil wayAnd from the evil of their deeds.²³“Am I a God who is ^anear,” declares Yahweh,“And not a God far off?²⁴“Can a man ^ahide himself in hiding placesSo I do not see him?” declares Yahweh.“^bDo I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares Yahweh.