Jeremiah 23:9-14

New American Standard Bible

False Prophets Denounced

⁹As for the prophets:
My ^(A)heart is broken within me,
All my bones tremble;
I have become like a drunken man,
And like a man overcome by wine,
Because of the Lord
And because of His holy words.
¹⁰For the land is full of ^(B)adulterers;
For the land ^(C)mourns because of the curse.
The ^(D)pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course is evil
And their might is not right.
¹¹“For ^(E)both prophet and priest are defiled;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
¹²“Therefore their way will be like ^(F)slippery paths to them,
They will be driven away into the ^(G)gloom and fall down in it;
For I will bring ^(H)disaster upon them,
The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.

¹³“Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an ^(I)offensive thing:
They ^(J)prophesied by Baal and ^(K)led My people Israel astray.
¹⁴Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a ^(L)horrible thing:
The committing of ^(M)adultery and walking in deceit;
And they strengthen the hands of ^(N)evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become to Me like ^(O)Sodom,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.