False Prophets and Empty Oracles

My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
(A)All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the Lord,
And because of His holy words.

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16 When I heard, (A)my body trembled;
My lips quivered at the voice;
Rottenness entered my bones;
And I trembled in myself,
That I might rest in the day of trouble.
When he comes up to the people,
He will invade them with his troops.

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21 Therefore please hear this, you afflicted,
And drunk (A)but not with wine.

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27 (A)And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king’s business. I was [a]astonished by the vision, but no one understood it.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 8:27 amazed

15 (A)He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.

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31 The prophets prophesy (A)falsely,
And the priests rule by their own power;
And My people (B)love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?

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(A)You have shown Your people hard things;
(B)You have made us drink the wine of [a]confusion.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 60:3 staggering

I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

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(A)Utterly[a] slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but (B)do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and (C)begin at My sanctuary.” (D)So they began with the elders who were before the [b]temple.

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  1. Ezekiel 9:6 Lit. Slay to destruction
  2. Ezekiel 9:6 Lit. house

and the Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put (A)a mark on the foreheads of the men (B)who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

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Judgment on the Nations

15 For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: “Take this (A)wine cup of [a]fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 16 And (B)they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

17 Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: 18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them (C)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and (D)a curse, as it is this day;

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  1. Jeremiah 25:15 wrath

17 “Therefore you shall say this word to them:

(A)‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
(B)For the virgin daughter of my people
Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.
18 If I go out to (C)the field,
Then behold, those slain with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
Then behold, those sick from famine!
Yes, both prophet and (D)priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”

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Disobedience Brings God’s Judgment

Oh, (A)that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!

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The Blindness of Disobedience

Pause and wonder!
Blind yourselves and be blind!
(A)They are drunk, (B)but not with wine;
They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.

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Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem

28 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower
Which is at the head of the [a]verdant valleys,
To those who are overcome with wine!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:1 Lit. valleys of fatness

So I said:

“Woe is me, for I am [a]undone!
Because I am a man of (A)unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King,
The Lord of hosts.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 6:5 destroyed, cut off

19 because your (A)heart was tender, and you (B)humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become (C)a desolation and (D)a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the Lord. 20 “Surely, therefore, I will [a]gather you to your fathers, and you (E)shall [b]be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 22:20 Cause you to join your ancestors in death
  2. 2 Kings 22:20 Die a natural death

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