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1 Woe be unto the pas­tors that de­stroy and scat­ter the sheep of my pas­ture! saith the LORD. 2 There­fore thus saith the LORD God of Is­rael against the pas­tors that feed my peo­ple; Ye have scat­tered my flock, and driv­en them away, and have not vis­it­ed them: be­hold, I will vis­it upon you the evil of your do­ings, saith the LORD. 3 And I will gath­er the rem­nant of my flock out of all coun­tries whith­er I have driv­en them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruit­ful and in­crease. 4 And I will set up shep­herds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dis­mayed, nei­ther shall they be lack­ing, saith the LORD. 5 Be­hold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righ­teous Branch, and a King shall reign and pros­per, and shall ex­e­cute judg­ment and jus­tice in the earth. 6 In his days Ju­dah shall be saved, and Is­rael shall dwell safe­ly: and this is his name where­by he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGH­TEOUS­NESS. 7 There­fore, be­hold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the chil­dren of Is­rael out of the land of Egypt; 8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Is­rael out of the north coun­try, and from all coun­tries whith­er I had driv­en them; and they shall dwell in their own land. 9 Mine heart with­in me is bro­ken be­cause of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunk­en man, and like a man whom wine hath over­come, be­cause of the LORD, and be­cause of the words of his ho­li­ness. 10 For the land is full of adul­ter­ers; for be­cause of swear­ing the land mour­neth; the pleas­ant places of the wilder­ness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are pro­fane; yea, in my house have I found their wicked­ness, saith the LORD. 12 Where­fore their way shall be unto them as slip­pery ways in the dark­ness: they shall be driv­en on, and fall there­in: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their vis­i­ta­tion, saith the LORD. 13 And I have seen fol­ly in the prophets of Samaria; they proph­e­sied in Baal, and caused my peo­ple Is­rael to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an hor­ri­ble thing: they com­mit adul­tery, and walk in lies: they strength­en also the hands of evil­do­ers, that none doth re­turn from his wicked­ness: they are all of them 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 worm­wood, and make them drink the wa­ter of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is pro­fane­ness gone forth into all the land. 16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hear­ken not unto the words of the prophets that proph­esy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vi­sion of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. 17 They say still unto them that de­spise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto ev­ery one that walketh af­ter the imag­i­na­tion of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18 For who hath stood in the coun­sel of the LORD, and hath per­ceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? 19 Be­hold, a whirl­wind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirl­wind: it shall fall grievous­ly upon the head of the wicked. 20 The anger of the LORD shall not re­turn, un­til he have ex­e­cut­ed, and till he have per­formed the thoughts of his heart: in the lat­ter days ye shall con­sid­er it per­fect­ly. 21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spo­ken to them, yet they proph­e­sied. 22 But if they had stood in my coun­sel, and had caused my peo­ple to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their do­ings. 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide him­self in se­cret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heav­en and earth? saith the LORD. 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that proph­esy lies in my name, say­ing, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that proph­esy lies? yea, they are prophets of the de­ceit of their own heart; 27 Which think to cause my peo­ple to for­get my name by their dreams which they tell ev­ery man to his neigh­bour, as their fa­thers have for­got­ten my name for Baal. 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faith­ful­ly. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. 29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a ham­mer that breaketh the rock in pieces? 30 There­fore, be­hold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words ev­ery one from his neigh­bour. 31 Be­hold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. 32 Be­hold, I am against them that proph­esy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my peo­ple to err by their lies, and by their light­ness; yet I sent them not, nor com­mand­ed them: there­fore they shall not prof­it this peo­ple at all, saith the LORD. 33 And when this peo­ple, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, say­ing, What is the bur­den of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What bur­den? I will even for­sake you, saith the LORD. 34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the peo­ple, that shall say, The bur­den of the LORD, I will even pun­ish that man and his house. 35 Thus shall ye say ev­ery one to his neigh­bour, and ev­ery one to his broth­er, What hath the LORD an­swered? and, What hath the LORD spo­ken? 36 And the bur­den of the LORD shall ye men­tion no more: for ev­ery man's word shall be his bur­den; for ye have per­vert­ed the words of the liv­ing God, of the LORD of hosts our God. 37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD an­swered thee? and, What hath the LORD spo­ken? 38 But since ye say, The bur­den of the LORD; there­fore thus saith the LORD; Be­cause ye say this word, The bur­den of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, say­ing, Ye shall not say, The bur­den of the LORD; 39 There­fore, be­hold, I, even I, will ut­ter­ly for­get you, and I will for­sake you, and the city that I gave you and your fa­thers, and cast you out of my pres­ence: 40 And I will bring an ev­er­last­ing re­proach upon you, and a per­pet­u­al shame, which shall not be for­got­ten.