Jeremiah Chapter 23

• Jeremiah 23:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 23:2
  “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 23:3
  Therefore 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 vis...
• Jeremiah 23:4
  “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 f...
• Jeremiah 23:5
  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 the LORD.
• Jeremiah 23:6
  “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 ju...
• Jeremiah 23:7
  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.
• Jeremiah 23:8
  “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 l...
• Jeremiah 23:9
  but, ‘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 ...
• Jeremiah 23:10
  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 ...
• Jeremiah 23:11
  “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...
• Jeremiah 23:12
  for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 23:13
  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 ...
• Jeremiah 23:14
  “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
• Jeremiah 23:15
  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...
• Jeremiah 23:16
  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 p...
• Jeremiah 23:17
  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...
• Jeremiah 23:18
  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 hea...
• Jeremiah 23:19
  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?
• Jeremiah 23:20
  Behold, the LORD’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked.
• Jeremiah 23:21
  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.
• Jeremiah 23:22
  I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
• Jeremiah 23:23
  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 ...
• Jeremiah 23:24
  “Am I a God at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a God afar off?
• Jeremiah 23:25
  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.
• Jeremiah 23:26
  “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
• Jeremiah 23:27
  How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
• Jeremiah 23:28
  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.
• Jeremiah 23:29
  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 the...
• Jeremiah 23:30
  “Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
• Jeremiah 23:31
  “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.
• Jeremiah 23:32
  Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
• Jeremiah 23:33
  Behold, 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 boas...
• Jeremiah 23:34
  “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 wil...
• Jeremiah 23:35
  As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ I will even punish that man and his household.
• Jeremiah 23:36
  You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD said?’
• Jeremiah 23:37
  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 Go...
• Jeremiah 23:38
  You will say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
• Jeremiah 23:39
  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 yo...
• Jeremiah 23:40
  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.
• Jeremiah 23:41
  I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”