Jeremiah 23:9-14

New King James Version

False Prophets and Empty Oracles

⁹My 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.
¹⁰For ^(B)the land is full of adulterers;
For ^(C)because of a curse the land mourns.
^(D)The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course of life is evil,
And their might is not right.

¹¹“For ^(E)both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, ^(F)in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.
¹²“Therefore^(G) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I ^(H)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
¹³“And I have seen ^[a]folly in the prophets of Samaria:
^(I)They prophesied by Baal
And ^(J)caused My people Israel to err.
¹⁴Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
^(K)They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also ^(L)strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like ^(M)Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.