10 Therefore (A)I will give their wives to others,
And their fields to those who will inherit them;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is given to (B)covetousness;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals falsely.

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12 And (A)their houses shall be turned over to others,
Fields and wives together;
For I will stretch out My hand
Against the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord.
13 “Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone is given to (B)covetousness;
And from the prophet even to the (C)priest,
Everyone deals falsely.

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31 So (A)they come to you as people do, they (B)sit before you as My people, and they (C)hear your words, but they do not do them; (D)for with their mouth they show much love, but (E)their hearts pursue their own gain.

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11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, (A)for the sake of dishonest gain.

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13 Therefore their goods shall become booty,
And their houses a desolation;
They shall build houses, but not inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards, but (A)not drink their wine.”

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11 (A)Therefore, because you [a]tread down the poor
And take grain [b]taxes from him,
Though (B)you have built houses of hewn stone,
Yet you shall not dwell in them;
You have planted [c]pleasant vineyards,
But you shall not drink wine from them.

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  1. Amos 5:11 trample
  2. Amos 5:11 Or tribute
  3. Amos 5:11 desirable

27 Her (A)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [a]people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 (B)Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, (C)seeing false visions, and divining (D)lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken.

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  1. Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls

11 “For (A)both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, (B)in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.
12 “Therefore(C) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I (D)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
13 “And I have seen [a]folly in the prophets of Samaria:
(E)They prophesied by Baal
And (F)caused My people Israel to err.
14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
(G)They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also (H)strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like (I)Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:

‘Behold, I will feed them with (J)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[b]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”

16 Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
(K)They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.
17 They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, (L)“You shall have peace” ’;
And to everyone who (M)walks according to the [c]dictates of his own heart, they say,
(N)‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”

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  1. Jeremiah 23:13 Lit. distastefulness
  2. Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
  3. Jeremiah 23:17 stubbornness or imagination

10 His watchmen are (A)blind,
They are all ignorant;
(B)They are all dumb dogs,
They cannot bark;
[a]Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yes, they are (C)greedy[b] dogs
Which (D)never[c] have enough.
And they are shepherds
Who cannot understand;
They all look to their own way,
Every one for his own gain,
From his own territory.
12 “Come,” one says, “I will bring wine,
And we will fill ourselves with intoxicating (E)drink;
(F)Tomorrow will be (G)as today,
And much more abundant.”

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  1. Isaiah 56:10 Or Dreaming
  2. Isaiah 56:11 Lit. strong of soul
  3. Isaiah 56:11 Lit. do not know satisfaction

But they also (A)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
(B)The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

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30 (A)“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; (B)you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; (C)you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to (D)another people, and your eyes shall look and (E)fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be [a]no strength in your (F)hand.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:32 nothing you can do

Destructive Doctrines

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be (A)false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction [a]does not slumber.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:3 M will not

For a [a]bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, (A)not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,

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  1. Titus 1:7 Lit. overseer

11 (A)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(B)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [a]money.
(C)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”

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  1. Micah 3:11 Lit. silver

Thus says the Lord (A)concerning the prophets
Who make my people stray;
Who chant [a]“Peace”
[b]While they (B)chew with their teeth,
But who prepare war against him
(C)Who puts nothing into their mouths:

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  1. Micah 3:5 All is well
  2. Micah 3:5 For those who feed them

13 (A)Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
(B)Who shed in her midst
The blood of the just.

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32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—(A)they, their kings, their princes, their priests, (B)their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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25 “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

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31 The prophets prophesy (A)falsely,
And the priests rule by their own power;
And My people (B)love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?

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