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Chapter 23 Woe be unto the pastors that
destroy and scatter the sheep of my

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pasture, saith the Lord.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord God of
Israel against the pastors that feed my

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people.

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Ye have scattered my flock, and driven
them away, and have not visited them.

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Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of
your doing, saith the Lord.

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And I will gather the remnant of my flock
out of all countries, whither I have

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driven them, and will bring them again to
their folds, and they shall be fruitful

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and increase.

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And I will set up shepherds over them,
which shall feed them, and they shall fear

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no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall
they be lacking, saith the Lord.

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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
that I will raise unto David a righteous

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branch, and a king shall reign and
prosper, and shall execute judgment and

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justice in the earth.

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In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely.

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And this is his name whereby he shall be
called, the Lord our righteousness.

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Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the Lord, that they shall no more

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say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of

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Egypt.

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But the Lord liveth, which brought up and
which led the seed of the house of Israel

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out of the north country, and from all
countries whither I had driven them,

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and they shall dwell in their own land.

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My heart within me is broken because of
the prophets, all my bones shake.

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I am like a drunken man, and like a man
whom wine hath overcome, because of the

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Lord and because of the words of his
holiness.

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For the land is full of adulterers,
for because of swearing the land mourneth.

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The pleasant places of the wilderness are
dried up, and their course is evil,

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and their force is not right.

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For both prophet and priest are profane,
yea, in my house have I found their

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wickedness, saith the Lord.

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Wherefore their way shall be unto them as
slippery ways in the darkness.

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They shall be driven on and fall therein,
for I will bring evil upon them,

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even the year of their visitation,
saith the Lord.

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And I have seen folly in the prophets of
Samaria.

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They prophesied in Baal, and caused my
people Israel to err.

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I have seen also in the prophets of
Jerusalem, a horrible thing.

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They commit adultery, and walk in lies.

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They strengthen also the hands of
evildoers, that none doth return from his

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wickedness.

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They are all of them unto me as Sodom,
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts
concerning the prophets, Behold,

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I will feed them with wormwood,
and make them drink the water of Gaul.

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For from the prophets of Jerusalem is
profaneness gone forth into all the land.

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not
unto the words of the prophets that

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prophesy unto you.

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They make you vain.

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They speak a vision of their own heart,
and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

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They say still unto them that despise me,
The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace.

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And they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart,

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No evil shall come upon you.

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For who hath stood in the counsel of the
Lord, and hath perceived, and heard his

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word?

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Who hath marked his word, and heard it?

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Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone
forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind.

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It shall fall grievously upon the head of
the wicked.

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The anger of the Lord shall not return
until he have executed, until he have

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performed the thoughts of his heart.

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In the latter days you shall consider it
perfectly.

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I have not sent these prophets,
yet they ran.

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I have not spoken to them, yet they
prophesied.

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But if they had stood in my counsel,
and had caused my people to hear my words,

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then they should have turned them from
their evil way, and from the evil of their

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doings.

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Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord,
and not a God afar off?

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Can any hide himself in secret places that
I shall not see him, saith the Lord?

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Do not I fill heaven and earth,
saith the Lord?

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I have heard what the prophets said,
that prophesy lies in my name,

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saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

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How long shall this be in the heart of the
prophets that prophesy lies?

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Yea, they are prophets of the deceit of
their own heart, which think to cause my

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people to forget my name by their dreams,
which they tell every man to his neighbor,

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as their fathers have forgotten my name
for Baal.

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The prophet that hath a dream,
let him tell a dream, and he that hath my

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word, let him speak my word faithfully.

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What is the chaff to the wheat,
saith the Lord?

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Is not my word like as a fire,
saith the Lord, and like a hammer that

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breaketh the rock in pieces?

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Therefore behold, I am against the
prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my

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words every one from his neighbor.

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Behold, I am against the prophets,
saith the Lord, that use their tongues and

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say, He saith.

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Behold, I am against them that prophesy
false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell

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them, and cause my people to err by their
lies and by their likeness.

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Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them,
therefore they shall not profit this

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people at all, saith the Lord.

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And when this people, or the prophet,
or a priest, shall ask thee, saying,

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What is the burden of the Lord?

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Thou shalt then say unto them,
What burden?

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I will even forsake you, saith the Lord.

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And as for the prophet, and the priest,
and the people, that shall say,

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The burden of the Lord.

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I will even punish that man and his house.

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Thus shall ye say every one to his
neighbor, and every one to his brother,

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What hath the Lord answered, and what hath
the Lord spoken?

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And the burden of the Lord shall ye
mention no more, for every man's word

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shall be his burden, for ye have perverted
the words of the living God, of the Lord

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of hosts our God.

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Thus shalt thou say to the prophet,
What hath the Lord answered thee,

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and what hath the Lord spoken?

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But since ye say, The burden of the Lord,
therefore thus saith the Lord.

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Because ye say this word, The burden of
the Lord, and I have sent unto you,

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saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of
the Lord.

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Therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly
forget you, and I will forsake you,

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and the city that I gave you, and your
fathers, and cast you out of my presence.

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And I will bring an everlasting reproach
upon you, and a perpetual shame,

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which shall not be forgotten.