Jeremiah 23

1“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 56:9 · Jer 2:8 · Jer 2:26 · Jer 10:21 · Jer 12:10 · Jer 22:22 · +19 more

2Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 32:34 · Jer 5:9 · Jer 5:29 · Jer 8:12 · Jer 11:22 · Jer 13:21 · +7 more

3“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.Cross-references: Deut 30:3 · Ps 106:47 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 27:12 · Isa 43:5 · Jer 29:14 · +13 more

4I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Num 31:49 · Ps 78:70 · Isa 11:11 · Jer 3:14 · Jer 30:10 · Jer 31:10 · +15 more

5“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.Cross-references: Ps 45:4 · Ps 72:1 · Ps 80:15 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 11:1 · +29 more

6In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.Cross-references: Deut 33:28 · 1Ki 4:25 · Ps 130:7 · Isa 2:4 · Isa 7:14 · Isa 9:6 · +29 more

7“Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’Cross-references: Isa 43:18 · Jer 16:14 · Jer 23:3 · Jer 31:31

8but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”Cross-references: Isa 14:1 · Isa 27:12 · Isa 43:5 · Isa 65:8 · Jer 23:3 · Ezek 34:13 · +5 more

9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.Cross-references: 2Ki 22:19 · Ps 60:3 · Isa 6:5 · Isa 28:1 · Isa 29:9 · Isa 51:21 · +10 more

10“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;Cross-references: Ps 107:34 · Isa 24:6 · Jer 5:7 · Jer 7:9 · Jer 9:2 · Jer 9:10 · +13 more

11for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:5 · 2Chr 33:7 · 2Chr 36:14 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 6:13 · Jer 7:10 · +13 more

12Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 32:34 · Job 18:18 · Ps 35:6 · Ps 73:18 · Prov 4:19 · Isa 8:22 · +8 more

13“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:18 · 1Ki 18:25 · 1Ki 18:40 · 2Chr 33:9 · Isa 9:16 · Jer 2:8 · +1 more

14In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 18:20 · Deut 32:32 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 41:6 · Jer 5:30 · +26 more

15Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”Cross-references: Ps 69:21 · Jer 8:14 · Jer 9:15 · Lam 3:5 · Lam 3:15 · Lam 3:19 · +2 more

16Yahweh of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:15 · Prov 19:27 · Jer 2:5 · Jer 9:20 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:21 · +15 more

17They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’Cross-references: Num 11:20 · Deut 29:19 · 1Sam 2:30 · 2Sam 12:10 · Isa 3:10 · Isa 57:21 · +23 more

18For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?Cross-references: 1Ki 22:24 · 2Chr 18:23 · Job 15:8 · Ps 25:14 · Isa 40:13 · Jer 23:22 · +3 more

19Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked.Cross-references: Ps 58:9 · Prov 1:27 · Prov 10:25 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 21:1 · Isa 40:24 · +7 more

20Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.Cross-references: Gen 49:1 · Deut 31:29 · 1Ki 8:47 · 2Ki 23:26 · Prov 5:11 · Prov 21:30 · +6 more

21I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.Cross-references: Isa 6:8 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:32 · Jer 27:15 · Jer 28:15 · Jer 29:9 · +4 more

22But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.Cross-references: Jer 23:18 · Jer 25:5 · Jer 35:15 · Jer 36:3 · Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:17 · +7 more

23“Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh, “and not a God afar off?Cross-references: 1Ki 20:23 · 1Ki 20:28 · Ps 113:5 · Ps 139:1 · Ezek 20:32 · Jonah 1:3

24Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 16:13 · 1Ki 8:27 · 2Chr 2:6 · 2Chr 6:18 · Job 22:13 · Job 24:13 · +15 more

25“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’Cross-references: Gen 37:5 · Gen 37:9 · Num 12:6 · Ps 139:2 · Ps 139:4 · Jer 8:6 · +13 more

26How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?Cross-references: Ps 4:2 · Isa 30:10 · Jer 4:14 · Jer 13:27 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 17:9 · +6 more

27They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.Cross-references: Deut 13:1 · Judg 3:7 · Judg 8:33 · Judg 10:6 · 2Ki 21:3 · Jer 29:8 · +3 more

28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Prov 14:5 · Matt 24:45 · Luke 12:42 · 1Cor 3:12 · 1Cor 4:2 · 2Cor 2:17 · +1 more

29“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?Cross-references: Jer 5:14 · Jer 20:9 · Luke 24:32 · John 6:63 · Acts 2:3 · Acts 2:37 · +4 more

30“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.Cross-references: Lev 20:3 · Lev 26:17 · Deut 18:20 · Deut 29:20 · Ps 34:16 · Jer 14:14 · +6 more

31Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’Cross-references: 2Chr 18:5 · 2Chr 18:10 · 2Chr 18:19 · Isa 30:10 · Jer 23:17 · Mic 2:11

32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 13:1 · Deut 18:20 · Isa 3:12 · Jer 7:8 · Jer 23:16 · Jer 23:21 · +12 more

33“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’Cross-references: Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:19 · 2Chr 15:2 · Ps 78:59 · Isa 13:1 · Isa 14:28 · +8 more

34As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.Cross-references: Lam 2:14 · Zech 13:3

35You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’Cross-references: Jer 31:34 · Jer 33:3 · Jer 42:4 · Heb 8:11

36You will mention the message from Yahweh no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.Cross-references: Deut 5:26 · 1Sam 17:26 · 1Sam 17:36 · 2Ki 19:4 · Ps 12:3 · Ps 64:8 · +16 more

37You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’

38Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh,”Cross-references: 2Chr 11:13

39therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.Cross-references: Gen 6:17 · Lev 26:28 · Deut 32:39 · Ps 51:11 · Prov 13:13 · Isa 48:15 · +19 more

40I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”Cross-references: Deut 28:37 · Jer 20:11 · Jer 24:9 · Jer 42:18 · Jer 44:8 · Ezek 5:14 · +3 more