Jeremiah 23:3-14

English Standard Version

³^(A)Then I will gather the remnant of my flock ^(B)out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, ^(C)and they shall be fruitful and multiply. ⁴^(D)I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the Lord.

⁵^(E)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous ^(F)Branch, and ^(G)he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. ⁶In his days Judah will be saved, and ^(H)Israel will ^(I)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ^(J)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

⁷^(K)“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ ⁸but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he^[a] had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

Lying Prophets

⁹Concerning the prophets:

^(L)My heart is broken within me;
    ^(M)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^(N)For the land is full of adulterers;
    ^(O)because of the curse ^(P)the land mourns,
    and ^(Q)the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
^(R)Their course is evil,
    and their might is not right.
¹¹^(S)“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
    even ^(T)in my house I have found their evil,
declares the Lord.
¹²^(U)Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths ^(V)in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
    ^(W)in the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.
¹³In the prophets of ^(X)Samaria
    ^(Y)I saw an unsavory thing:
^(Z)they prophesied by Baal
    ^(AA)and led my people Israel astray.
¹⁴But in the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen a horrible thing:
^(AB)they commit adultery and walk in lies;
    ^(AC)they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    so that no one turns from his evil;
^(AD)all of them have become like Sodom to me,
    ^(AE)and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”