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“Therefore, the time is coming,” declares the Lord, “when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives who brought up the Israelis from the land of Egypt,’ but they’ll say,[a] ‘As surely as the Lord lives who brought the descendants of the Israelis from the land of the north and from all the lands where I had driven them and brought them into the land.’[b] Then they’ll live in their own land.”

An Oracle about False Prophets

Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,
    and all my bones shake.
I’m like a drunk man,
    like a person overcome with wine,
because of the Lord,
    and because of his holy words.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:8 The Heb. lacks they’ll say
  2. Jeremiah 23:8 The Heb. lacks the land