Jeremiah 23
23:1O the shepherds, the ones scattering and destroying the sheep of my pasture.
23:2On account of this, thus says the lord, the God of Israel, against the shepherds, the ones tending my people; You scattered my sheep, and pushed them out, and did not visit them. Behold, I shall take vengeance upon you, against your wicked practices.
23:3And I will take in the ones remaining of my people upon all the earth of which place I pushed them there; and I shall place them into their pasture, and they shall grow and be multiplied.
23:4And I shall raise up to them shepherds tending them, and they shall not be fearful any more, nor shall they be terrified, nor shall they be seeking after, says the lord.
23:5Behold, days come, says the lord, and I will raise up to David a just dawn; and a king shall reign, and shall perceive, and shall execute equity and righteousness upon the earth.
23:6In his days Judah shall be delivered, and Israel shall encamp complying. And this is his name, which the lord shall call him -- Josedek.
23:7On account of this, behold, days come, says the lord, and they will not say any longer, As the lord lives, who led the house of Israel from out of the land of Egypt.
23:8But as the lord lives, who led up and gathered all together the seed of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the places of which they were pushed there; and he restored them unto their land.
23:9In the prophets my heart was broken; in me all my bones were shaken; I became as a man being broken, and as a man constrained by wine, from the countenance of the lord, and from the countenance of the beauty of his glory.
23:10For the land is full of adulterers. For from the countenance of these things the land mourned; the pastures of the wilderness were dried up; and their race became wicked, and their strength not thus.
23:11For priest and prophet were tainted; and in my house I saw their wickedness, says the lord.
23:12On account of this let their way become to them for a slip in dimness! And they shall be tripped up and shall fall in it. Because I shall bring upon them bad things in the year of their visitation, says the lord.
23:13And among the prophets of Samaria I beheld violations of the laws; they prophesied by Baal, and they misled my people Israel.
23:14And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen causes for shuddering -- committing adultery and going by lies, and taking hold of hands of wicked ones for each to not be turned from his wicked way. They all became to me as Sodom, and the ones dwelling in it as Gomorrah.
23:15On account of this, thus says the lord of the forces to the prophets; Behold, I will feed them grief, and I shall give them to drink bitter water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem contamination came forth to all the land.
23:16Thus says the lord the almighty, Do not hearken to the words of the prophets! of the ones prophesying to you. For they frame in folly a vision for themselves. From their heart they speak, and not from the mouth of the lord.
23:17They say to the ones thrusting away the word of the lord, Peace will be to you; and to all the ones going by their wants, and to all going in a delusion of his heart, Evils shall not come upon you.
23:18For who stood in the garrison of the lord, and beheld and heard his word? Who gave ear and heard?
23:19Behold, a quaking by the lord, and anger shall go forth in a rumbling. It shall come contracting upon the impious.
23:20And the rage of the lord shall not turn away until whenever he should execute it, and until whenever he should establish it according to the enterprise of his heart. At the latter end of the days they shall comprehend them.
23:21I did not send the false prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, and they prophesied.
23:22And if they stood with my support, and they hearkened to my words, then my people would have turned from their wicked practices.
23:23I am a God being near, says the lord, and not a God at a distance.
23:24Shall any be hid in secret, and I not see him, says the lord, no. Is it not that I shall fill the heaven and the earth, says the lord?
23:25I heard what the prophets speak who prophesy lies by my name, saying, I dreamed a dream.
23:26For how long shall it be in the heart of the prophets prophesying lies, and in their prophesying the wants of their heart?
23:27The ones devising ways to forget my name by their dreams, which each was described to his neighbor; as their fathers forgot my name in service to Baal.
23:28The prophet by which the dream is, let him describe his dream! and the one by which my word is truly with him, let him describe my word in truth! What is the straw to the grain? Thus are my words, says the lord.
23:29Are not my words as fire blazing, says the lord? and as a hewing axe beating the rock?
23:30Behold, I am against the prophets, says the lord God, the ones stealing my words each from his neighbor.
23:31Behold, I am against the prophets, says the lord, the ones casting out prophecies of the tongue, and slumbering of their own slumber.
23:32Behold, I am against the prophets prophesying false dreams, and of whom described them, and misled my people by their lies, and in their delusions; and I sent them not, and I did not give charge to them, and they derived not a benefit for this people, says the lord.
23:33And if this people should ask you, or priest, or prophet, saying, What is the concern of the lord? then you shall say to them, You are the concern, and I will dash you down, says the lord,
23:34and the prophet, and the priest, and the people, the ones who should say, The concern of the lord; even I will punish that man, and his house.
23:35Thus you shall say each to his neighbor, and each to his brother, What did the lord answer? And what did the lord speak?
23:36And the concern of the lord name not again! for the concern to the man will be his word. And you distorted the words of the living God.
23:37Thus you shall say to the prophet, What spoke the lord our God?
23:38On account of this, thus says the lord, Because you said this word, The concern of the lord, that I sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The concern of the lord.
23:39On account of this, behold, I will take and dash you down, and the city which I have given to you and to your fathers.
23:40And I shall put upon you eternal scorn and eternal dishonor, which shall not be forgotten.