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Jeremiah - ch 23 v 21 - 40
- I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
- If they stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way and from their wicked doings.
- Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
- Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
- I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesylies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
- How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?
- Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
- The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?
- Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
- Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbor.
- Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.
- Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.
- If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.
- And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.
- Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and to his brother: What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?
- And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every man's word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
- Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken?
- But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus saith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the Lord: and I have sent to you saying: Say not, Tne burden of the Lord:
- Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence.
- And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.
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