Jeremiah 23:9-15 (NRSV)
​Concerning
the prophets:
My heart is crushed within me,
all my bones shake;
I have become like a drunkard,
like one overcome by wine,
because
of the LORD
and because of his holy words.
For the land is full of
adulterers;
because of the curse the land mourns,
and the pastures
of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course has been evil,
and their
might is not right.
Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even in
my house I have found their wickedness,
says the LORD.
Therefore
their way shall be to them
like slippery paths in the darkness,
into
which they shall be driven and fall;
for I will bring disaster upon them
in the year of their punishment,
says the LORD.
In the prophets of
Samaria
I saw a disgusting thing:
they prophesied by Baal
and led my people Israel astray.
But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a more shocking thing:
they commit adultery and walk
in lies;
they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns
from wickedness;
all of them have become like Sodom to me,
and its
inhabitants like Gomorrah.
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning
the prophets:
"I am going to make them eat wormwood,
and
give them poisoned water to drink;
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has spread throughout the land."
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