Jeremiah 23
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Jeremiah 23:9-15

9Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness. 10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.12 11For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. 12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. 13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.3 14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.4 15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.5

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Notes

  1. 1. Jeremiah 23:10 swearing: or, cursing ↩
  2. 2. Jeremiah 23:10 course: or, violence ↩
  3. 3. Jeremiah 23:13 folly: or, an absurd thing: Heb. unsavoury ↩
  4. 4. Jeremiah 23:14 an…: or, filthiness ↩
  5. 5. Jeremiah 23:15 profaneness: or, hypocrisy ↩

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