Jeremiah 23:9-24

World English Bible

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.
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;
¹¹ for both prophet and priest are profane.
    Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
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.

¹³ “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria.
    They prophesied by Baal,
    and caused my people Israel to err.
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.”

“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.”

“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.
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.’
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?
¹⁹ Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out.
    Yes, a whirling storm:
    It will burst on the head of the wicked.
²⁰ Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed,
    and until he has performed the intents of his heart.
    In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
²¹ I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran.
    I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
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.

²³ “Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh,
    “and not a God afar off?
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.