Read Jeremiah 23

World English Bible · 40 verses

1. ¹ “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ “For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Yahweh of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ “Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh, “and not a God afar off?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. 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 straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ “Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
35. ³⁵ You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
36. ³⁶ You will mention the message from Yahweh no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
37. ³⁷ You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
38. ³⁸ Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh,”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
39. ³⁹ therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
40. ⁴⁰ I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org