Jeremiah 23:5–20

5 hBehold, ithe days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous kBranch, and la King shall reign and mprosper, and shall execute njudgment and justice in the earth. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and oIsrael shall dwell psafely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, †qTHE LORD rOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 sTherefore, behold, ithe days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8 But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and efrom all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

9  ssMine heart within me is broken because of the prophets;

tAll my bones shake;

I am like a drunken man,

And like a man whom wine hath overcome,

tBecause of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.

10  For uthe land is full of adulterers;

For vbecause of ||swearing wthe land mourneth;

xThe pleasant places of the wilderness yare dried up,

And their ||course is evil, and their force is not right.

11  For zboth prophet and priest are profane;

Yea, ain my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

12  Wherefore btheir way shall be unto them as slippery ways cin the darkness:

They shall be driven on, and fall therein:

dFor I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

13  And I have seen ||†efolly in the prophets of fSamaria;

gThey prophesied in Baal,

And hcaused my people Israel to err.

14  I have seen also in ithe prophets of Jerusalem ||an horrible thing:

kThey commit adultery, and lwalk in lies:

They mstrengthen also the hands of evildoers,

That none doth return from his wickedness:

They are all of them unto me nas Sodom,

And nthe inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning ithe prophets; oBehold, I will feed them with pwormwood, oand make them drink qthe water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ||profaneness gone forth into all the land. 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: rthey speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, sYe shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the ||imagination of his own heart, tNo evil shall come upon you. 18 For uwho hath stood in the ||counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? 19 wBehold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even xa grievous whirlwind: wit shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20 yThe anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: yzin the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.