Jer Jeremiah, chapter Book of Jeremiah, chapter 23
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the LORD. Ezk 34:3Therefore the LORD, 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 the LORD. “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. Deu 30:3; Jer 29:14; Luk 1:54I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says the LORD.Psa 23:1; Isa 40:11; Isa 45:13; Jer 3:15; Ezk 34:12
“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
“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.Isa 4:2; Jer 33:15; Dan 9:24; Zec 3:8; Zec 6:12; Jhn 1:45
In his days Judah will be saved,
and Israel will dwell safely.
This is his name by which he will be called:
The LORD our righteousness.Deu 33:28; Jer 33:16
“Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that they will no more say, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ Jer 16:14but, ‘As the LORD 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.”
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 the LORD,
and because of his holy words.
“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;Jer 5:7; Jer 9:2; Jer 12:4
for both prophet and priest are profane.
Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD.Jer 8:10
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 the LORD.Jer 13:16
“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria.
They prophesied by Baal,
and caused my people Israel to err.
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.”Jer 5:30; Isa 1:9; Isa 28:15; Ezk 13:22
Therefore the LORD 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.”Jer 9:15
The LORD 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 the LORD.Jer 27:9
They say continually to those who despise me,
‘The LORD 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.’Jer 6:14; Ezk 13:10; Zec 10:2
For who has stood in the council of the LORD,
that he should perceive and hear his word?
Who has listened to my word, and heard it?Job 15:8; Isa 40:13
Behold, the LORD’s storm, his wrath, has gone out.
Yes, a whirling storm!
It will burst on the head of the wicked.Jer 30:23
The LORD’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.Jer 30:24
I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran.
I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.Jer 14:14; Jer 27:15; Jer 29:9
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.Isa 55:11
“Am I a God at hand,” says the LORD,
“and not a God afar off?
Can anyone hide himself in secret places
so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD.
“Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.Job 34:21; Psa 139:7; Sir 23:27; Amo 9:2
“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ Jer 5:31; Jer 14:14How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? 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. Jdg 3:7The 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 the LORD. 1Pe 4:11“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?Sir 48:1; Luk 24:32; Rev 11:5
“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who each steal my words from his neighbor. Deu 18:20; Jer 14:15Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’ Ezk 13:6; Ezk 22:28Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says the LORD, “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 the LORD.Ezk 14:9; Zep 3:4
“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says the LORD.’ Ezk 12:9As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ I will even punish that man and his household. You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD said?’ You will mention the message from the LORD no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of Armies, our God. You will say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’ Although you say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ therefore the LORD says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from the LORD,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from the LORD,” 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. I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”Jer 20:11