Jeremiah 23

1Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Yahuah. 2Therefore thus says the Yahuah Elohim of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the Yahuah. 3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the Yahuah. 5Behold, the days come, says the Yahuah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this his name whereby he shall be called, THE Yahuah OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Yahuah, that they shall no more say, The Yahuah liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8But, The Yahuah liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. 9Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the Yahuah, and because of the words of his holiness. 10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force not right. 11For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the Yahuah. 12therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, the year of their visitation, says the Yahuah. 13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15Therefore thus says the Yahuah 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 profaneness gone forth into all the land. 16Thus says the Yahuah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of the Yahuah. 17They say still unto them that despise me, The Yahuah has said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18For who has stood in the counsel of the Yahuah, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard ? 19Behold, a whirlwind of the Yahuah is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20The anger of the Yahuah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. 21I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23I a Elohim at hand, says the Yahuah, and not a Elohim afar off? 24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the Yahuah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the Yahuah. 25I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26How long shall be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yes, prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 27Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 28The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What the chaff to the wheat? says the Yahuah. 29not my word like as a fire? says the Yahuah; and like a hammer breaketh the rock in pieces? 30Therefore, behold, I against the prophets, says the Yahuah, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 31Behold, I against the prophets, says the Yahuah, that use their tongues, and say, He says. 32Behold, I against them that prophesy false dreams, says the Yahuah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the Yahuah. 33And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What the burden of the Yahuah? you shall then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the Yahuah. 34And the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the Yahuah, I will even punish that man and his house. 35Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What has the Yahuah answered? and, What has the Yahuah spoken? 36And the burden of the Yahuah shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living Elohim, of the Yahuah of hosts our Elohim. 37Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the Yahuah answered you? and, What has the Yahuah spoken? 38But since ye say, The burden of the Yahuah; therefore thus says the Yahuah; Because ye say this word, The burden of the Yahuah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Yahuah; 39Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, out of my presence: 40And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.