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The False Prophets[a]

As for the prophets,
    my heart is broken within me,
    and all my bones never cease to tremble.
I have become like a drunken man,
    like someone overcome with wine,
because of the Lord
    and because of his holy words.
10 For the land swarms with adulterers;
    because of them the country mourns
    and the pastures in the desert have withered.
11 Both the prophets and the priests are godless;
    even in my own house have I observed their wickedness,
    says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:9 Jeremiah is heartsick at these professional prophets who flatter the people instead of shaking them up, and who take their dreams as the word of God or accommodate their message to the tastes of the day.