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All my bones shake. And to everyone who walks according
I am like a drunken man, to the dictates of his own heart,
And like a man whom wine has they say,
overcome, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”
Because of the LORD, 18 For who has stood in the counsel of the
And because of His holy words. LORD,
For the land is full of adulterers; And has perceived and heard His
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For because of a curse the land word?
mourns. Who has marked His word and heard
The pleasant places of the wilderness it?
are dried up. 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has
Their course of life is evil, gone forth in fury—
And their might is not right. A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the
11 “For both prophet and priest are
profane; wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD will not turn
Yes, in My house I have found their
wickedness,” says the LORD. back
“Therefore their way shall be to them the thoughts of His heart.
12 Until He has executed and performed
Like slippery ways; In the latter days you will understand
In the darkness they shall be driven on it perfectly.
And fall in them;
For I will bring disaster on them, 21 “I have not sent these prophets, yet
The year of their punishment,” says they ran.
the LORD. I have not spoken to them, yet they
13 “And I have seen folly in the prophets of prophesied.
Samaria: 22 But if they had stood in My counsel,
They prophesied by Baal And had caused My people to hear My
And caused My people Israel to err. words,
14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the Then they would have turned them
prophets of Jerusalem: from their evil way
They commit adultery and walk in lies; And from the evil of their doings.
They also strengthen the hands of 23 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the
evildoers, LORD,
So that no one turns back from his “And not a God afar off?
wickedness. 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret
All of them are like Sodom to Me, places,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah. So I shall not see him?” says the LORD;
15 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says
concerning the prophets: the LORD.
25 “I have heard what the prophets have said
‘Behold, I will feed them with
wormwood, who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have
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And make them drink the water of gall; dreamed, I have dreamed!’ How long will this
For from the prophets of Jerusalem be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy
Profaneness has gone out into all the lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of
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land.’ ” their own heart, who try to make My people
forget My name by their dreams which every-
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: one tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot
My name for Baal.
“Do not listen to the words of the
prophets who prophesy to you. 28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him
They make you worthless; tell a dream;
They speak a vision of their own heart, And he who has My word, let him
Not from the mouth of the LORD. speak My word faithfully.
They continually say to those who What is the chaff to the wheat?” says
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despise Me, the LORD.
‘The LORD has said, “You shall have 29 “Is not My word like a fire?” says the
peace” ’; LORD,

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