Jeremiah 23:9-15
1599 Geneva Bible
9 Mine heart breaketh within me, because of the [a]prophets, all my bones shake: I am like a drunken man (and like a man whom wine hath [b]overcome) for the presence of the Lord and for his holy words.
10 For the land is full of adulterers, and because of oaths the land mourneth, the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their [c]course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 For both the Prophet and the Priest [d]do wickedly: and their wickedness have I found in mine [e]House, saith the Lord.
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven forth and fall therein: for I will bring a plague upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
13 And I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria that prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem [f]filthiness: they commit adultery and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of the wicked, that none can return from his wickedness: they are all [g]unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets, Behold, I will feed them with [h]wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is [i]wickedness gone forth into all the land.
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- Jeremiah 23:9 Meaning, the false prophets which deceive the people: wherein appeareth his great love toward his nation, read Jer. 14:13.
- Jeremiah 23:9 Hebrew, passed over or troubled.
- Jeremiah 23:10 They run headlong to wickedness, and seek vain help.
- Jeremiah 23:11 Or, are hypocrites.
- Jeremiah 23:11 My Temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.
- Jeremiah 23:14 They which should have profited by my rods against Samaria, are become worse than they.
- Jeremiah 23:14 Though to the world they seem holy fathers, yet I detest them as I did these abominable cities.
- Jeremiah 23:15 Read Jer. 8:14.
- Jeremiah 23:15 Or, hypocrisy.
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