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23 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture,” says the LORD.
2 “Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Israel to the shepherds who feed My people: You have scattered My flock, and thrust them out, and have not visited them. Behold, I will reckon with you for the wickedness of your works,” says the LORD.
3 “And I will gather the remnant of My sheep out of all countries where I had driven them and will bring them again to their folds. And they shall grow and increase.
4 “And I will set up shepherds over them who shall feed them. And they shall dread no more nor be afraid, nor shall any of them be lacking,” says the LORD.
5 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch. And a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice on the Earth.
6 “In His days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is the Name by which they shall call Him: The Lord Our Righteousness.
7 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that they shall no longer say, ‘The LORD lives, Who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
8 “but, ‘The LORD lives, Who brought up and led the seed of the House of Israel out of the North country, and from all countries where I had scattered them,’ and they shall dwell in their own land.”
9 My heart breaks within me, because of the prophets. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the presence of the LORD and because of His holy Words.
10 For the land is full of adulterers. Because of oaths, the land mourns, the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 “For both the Prophet and the Priest do wickedly. And I have found their wickedness in My House,” says the LORD.
12 “Therefore, their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness. They shall be driven forth and fall in it. For I will bring a plague upon them, the year of their reckoning,” says the LORD.
13 “And I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria, who prophesied in Baal and caused My people Israel to err.
14 “I have also seen filthiness in the prophets of Jerusalem. They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of the wicked, so that no one can turn away from his wickedness. They are all to Me as Sodom, and their inhabitants as Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts concerning the prophets: ‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For wickedness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.’”
16 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you and teach you vanity. They speak the vision of their own heart, not out of the Mouth of the LORD.
17 “They continue to say to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD has said, “You shall have peace.”’ And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’”
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, so that he has perceived and heard His Word? Who has marked His Word and heard it?
19 Behold, the tempest of the LORD goes forth in wrath, and a violent whirlwind shall fall down upon the head of the wicked!
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return until He has executed, and until He has performed, the thoughts of His Heart. In the latter days, you shall understand it plainly.
21 “I have not sent these prophets,” says the LORD, “yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, and yet they prophesied.
22 “But if they had stood in My counsel, and had declared My Words to My people, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the wickedness of their inventions.
23 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a far off God?”
24 “Can anyone hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him,” says the LORD? “Do not I fill Heaven and Earth,” says the LORD?
25 “I have heard what the prophets said who prophesied lies in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed.’
26 “How long do the prophets delight to prophesy lies, even prophesying the deceit of their own heart?
27 “Do they intend to cause My people to forget My Name by their dreams, which everyone tells his neighbor, as their forefathers have forgotten My Name for Baal?
28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat,” says the LORD?
29 “Is not My Word like a fire,” says the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks the stone?
30 “Therefore, behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who steal My Word, each one from his neighbor.
31 “Behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who have sweet tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
32 “Behold, I will come against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their flatteries. And I did not send them or command them. Therefore, they bring no profit to this people,” says the LORD.
33 “And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest shall ask you, saying, ‘What is the oracle of the LORD?’ You shall then say to them, ‘What oracle? “I will forsake you,”’” says the LORD.
34 “And as for the prophet, or the priest, or the people who shall say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ I will reckon with each one and his house.
35 “Thus each one shall say to his neighbor, and each one to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
36 “And you shall no longer mention the oracle of the LORD. For each man’s word shall be his oracle. For you have perverted the Words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
37 “Thus shall you say to the Prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you? And what has the LORD spoken?’
38 “And if you say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ then thus says the LORD: Because you say this word, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ and I have sent to you, saying, ‘You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’
39 “Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you. And I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of My presence.
40 “And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall never be forgotten.”
24 The LORD showed me. And behold, two baskets of figs were set before the Temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the workmen, and cunning men of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babel.
2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so evil.
3 Then said the LORD to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs very good and the bad very bad which cannot be eaten, they are so evil.”
4 Again, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I know those of Judah who are carried away captive to be good, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
6 ‘For I will set My Eyes upon them for good. And I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not destroy them. And I will plant them and not root them out.
7 ‘And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.
8 ‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so evil — surely thus says the LORD — so will I give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem that remains in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
9 ‘I will give them as a terrible plague to all the kingdoms of the Earth, for a reproach and for a proverb, for a common talk and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.
10 ‘And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are destroyed in the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”
25 The Word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which was in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel.
2 which Jeremiah the Prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3 “From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day (that is, the twenty-third year), the Word of the LORD has come to me. And I have spoken it to you, rising early and speaking. But you would not hear.
4 “And the LORD has sent to you all His servants, the Prophets, rising early and sending them. But you would not hear or incline your ears to obey.
5 “They said, ‘Everyone turn back now from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your inventions, and you shall dwell in the land that the LORD has given you, and to your fathers, forever and ever.
6 ‘And do not go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them. And do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, and I will not punish you.
7 Nevertheless, you would not hear Me,’ says the LORD, ‘but have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.’
8 “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My Words,
9 ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the North,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations all around and will destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and a continual desolation.
10 ‘Moreover, I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the noise of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 ‘And this whole land shall be desolate, and an astonishment. These nations shall serve the king of Babel for seventy years.
12 ‘And when the seventy years are completed, I will reckon with the king of Babel and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquities,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make it a perpetual desolation.
13 ‘And I will bring upon that land all My Words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this Book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all nations.
14 ‘For many nations and great kings shall be served by them. Thus will I recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.’
15 For thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken to me: ‘Take this cup of wine of indignation from My Hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
16 ‘And they shall drink and be moved and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.’”
17 Then I took the cup from the LORD’s Hand, and made all people drink to whom the LORD had sent me:
18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them desolate, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day,
19 Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,
20 and all sorts of people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites,
22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the Isles who are beyond the sea,
23 and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who dwell in the uttermost corners,
24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of Arabia who dwell in the desert,
25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of [u]Elam, and all the kings of the Medes.
26 And all the kings of the North, far from and near to one another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the Earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink and be drunken, and spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”
28 ‘But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand, to drink, then tell them, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘You shall certainly drink.
29 ‘For lo, I begin to plague the city where My Name is called upon. And should you go free? You shall not go acquitted. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the Earth,’ says the LORD of Hosts.”
30 ‘Therefore, prophesy all these words against them, and say to them, “The LORD shall roar from above and thrust out His Voice from His holy habitation. He shall roar upon His habitation, and cry aloud, as those who press the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the Earth.
31 “The sounds shall come to the ends of the Earth. For the LORD has a controversy with the nations and will enter into judgment with all flesh. He will give to the sword those who are wicked,” says the LORD.’
32 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Behold, a plague shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the Earth.
33 ‘And the slain of the LORD shall be on that day from one end of the Earth to the other end of the Earth. They shall be neither mourned nor gathered nor buried but shall be as the dung upon the ground.
34 ‘Howl, you shepherds, and cry! And wallow in the ashes, you leader of the flock! For your days of slaughter and dispersion are fulfilled, and you shall fall like precious vessels.
35 ‘And the shepherds shall have no refuge, and the leader of the flock no escape.
36 ‘A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the leader of the flock, shall be heard. For the LORD has destroyed their pasture.
37 ‘And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the LORD.
38 He has forsaken His covert, as the lion. For their land is waste because of the wrath of the oppressor, and because of the wrath of His indignation.’”
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