Jeremiah 23:9-17

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^(A)My heart is broken within me;
    ^(B)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 (C)For the land is full of adulterers;
    ^(D)because of the curse ^(E)the land mourns,
    and ^(F)the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
^(G)Their course is evil,
    and their might is not right.
^11 (H)“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
    even ^(I)in my house I have found their evil,
declares the Lord.
^12 (J)Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths ^(K)in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
    ^(L)in the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.
¹³ In the prophets of ^(M)Samaria
    ^(N)I saw an unsavory thing:
^(O)they prophesied by Baal
    ^(P)and led my people Israel astray.
¹⁴ But in the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen a horrible thing:
^(Q)they commit adultery and walk in lies;
    ^(R)they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    so that no one turns from his evil;
^(S)all of them have become like Sodom to me,
    ^(T)and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
¹⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
^(U)“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
    ^(V)and give them ^(W)poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”