17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, (A)‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who (B)stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, (C)‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”

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11 (A)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    (B)its priests teach for a price;
    (C)its prophets practice divination for money;
(D)yet they lean on the Lord and (E)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    (F)No disaster shall come upon us.”

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10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, (A)who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is (B)good for nothing.

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10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, (A)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

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Thus says the Lord concerning (A)the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
(B)who cry “Peace”
    when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
    who puts nothing into their mouths.

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14 but (A)have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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11 They have healed (A)the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
    when there is no peace.

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12 They have spoken falsely of the Lord
    and have said, ‘He will do nothing;
(A)no disaster will come upon us,
    (B)nor shall we see sword or famine.

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19 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

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For (A)the household gods (B)utter nonsense,
    and the diviners see lies;
(C)they tell false dreams
    and give empty consolation.
Therefore (D)the people wander like sheep;
    they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

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22 (A)Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and (B)you have encouraged the wicked, that (C)he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,

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10 Precisely because they have misled my people, (A)saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, (B)these prophets smear it with whitewash,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 13:10 Or plaster; also verses 11, 14, 15

18 Then they said, (A)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. (C)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

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14 They have healed the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, (A)‘Peace, peace,’
    (B)when there is no peace.

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17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, (A)and all nations shall gather to it, (B)to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.

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20 but a whole month, (A)until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, (B)“Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”

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Therefore (A)whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, (B)who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

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16 (A)“The one who hears you hears me, and (B)the one who rejects you rejects me, and (C)the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

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15 Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it, 16 the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem (A)and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord God.

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14 (A)Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
(B)they have not exposed your iniquity
    to (C)restore your fortunes,
(D)but have seen for you (E)oracles
    that are false and misleading.

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(A)Within (B)two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. I will also bring back to this place (C)Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the Lord, (D)for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord, and the prophet Jeremiah said, (E)“Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles. Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. (F)The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. (G)As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.”

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24 (A)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (B)but walked in their own counsels and (C)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (D)went backward and not forward.

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10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God, (A)surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ whereas the sword has reached their very life.”

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21 (A)There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

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10 (A)Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
    (B)for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11 (C)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

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