Jeremiah 23:9-15

Revised Standard Version

My heart is broken within me,
    all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
    like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord
    and because of his holy words.
¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers;
    because of the curse the land mourns,
    and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course is evil,
    and their might is not right.
¹¹ “Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
    even in my house I have found their wickedness,
                says the Lord.
¹² Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall;
for I will bring evil upon them
    in the year of their punishment,
                says the Lord.
¹³ In the prophets of Samar′ia
    I saw an unsavory thing:
they prophesied by Ba′al
    and led my people Israel astray.
¹⁴ But in the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
    they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    so that no one turns from his wickedness;
all of them have become like Sodom to me,
    and its inhabitants like Gomor′rah.”

“Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
    and give them poisoned water to drink;
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.”