Jeremiah 23

14 Ref In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.

15 Ref Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

16 Ref Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, 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 Ref They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.

18 Ref For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it?

19 Ref Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

20 Ref The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.

21 Ref I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.

22 Ref But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

23 Ref Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?

24 Ref Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

25 Ref I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

26 Ref How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

27 Ref who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

28 Ref 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 Yahweh.

29 Ref Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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