The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 23:8 (NKJV)
but, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:9 (NIV)

Concerning the prophets:
My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like a strong man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord and his holy words.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:10 (NIV)

The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered.
The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.

 

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Jeremiah 23:11 (NASB)
“For both prophet and priest are defiled; Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 23:12 (ESV)
Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:13 (NIV)

‘Among the prophets of Samaria I saw this repulsive thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:14 (NIV)

And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible:they commit adultery and live a lie.
They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that not one of them turns from their wickedness.
They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.’

 

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Jeremiah 23:15 (NKJV)
“Therefore thus says the LORD 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 Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”

 

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Jeremiah 23:16 (NASB 1995)
Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the LORD.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:17 (CSB)

They keep on saying to those who despise me, ‘The Lord has spoken: You will have peace.’
They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:18 (CSB)

For who has stood in the council of the Lord to see and hear his word? Who has paid attention to his word and obeyed?

 

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Jeremiah 23:19 (NKJV)
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury— A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.

 

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Jeremiah 23:20 (NASB)
“The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; In the last days you will clearly understand it.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:21 (CSB)

I did not send out these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:22 (CSB)

If they had really stood in my council, they would have enabled my people to hear my words
and would have turned them from their evil ways and their evil deeds.

 

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Jeremiah 23:23 (BST)
I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.

 

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Jeremiah 23:24 (ERV)
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:25 (EHV)

I have heard what the prophets who prophesy lies in my name have said.
They say, “I have had a dream! I have had a dream!”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 23:26 (CSB)

How long will this continue in the minds of the prophets prophesying lies, prophets of the deceit of their own minds?

 

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Jeremiah 23:27 (NKJV)
who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.