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but they’ll say,[a] ‘As surely as the Lord lives who brought the descendants of the Israelis from the land of the north and from all the lands where I had driven them and brought them into the land.’[b] Then they’ll live in their own land.”

An Oracle about False Prophets

Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,
    and all my bones shake.
I’m like a drunk man,
    like a person overcome with wine,
because of the Lord,
    and because of his holy words.
10 Indeed, the land is full of adulterers.
    Indeed, the land mourns because of the curse;
        the pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
The adulterers’[c] lifestyles are evil,
    and they use[d] their strength for what[e] is not right.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:8 The Heb. lacks they’ll say
  2. Jeremiah 23:8 The Heb. lacks the land
  3. Jeremiah 23:10 Lit. Their
  4. Jeremiah 23:10 The Heb. lacks they use
  5. Jeremiah 23:10 The Heb. lacks for what