Jeremiah 23
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Jeremiah 23:16-24

16This is what the Lord of Armies says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the Lord’s mouth.

17They keep on saying to those who despise me, ‘The Lord has spoken: You will have peace.’ They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’”

18For who has stood in the council of the Lord to see and hear his word? Who has paid attention to his word and obeyed?

19Look, a storm from the Lord! Wrath has gone out, a whirling storm. It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.

20The Lord’s anger will not turn away until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart. In time to come you will understand it clearly.

21I did not send out these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

22If they had really stood in my council, they would have enabled my people to hear my words and would have turned them from their evil ways and their evil deeds.

23“Am I a God who is only near”  — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and not a God who is far away?

24Can a person hide in secret places where I cannot see him?”  — the Lord’s declaration. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?”  — the Lord’s declaration.

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