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Jeremiah Chapter 23

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 23

1Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 10:21, Jeremiah 10:21, Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:10, Zechariah 11:15
2Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds 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 Jehovah.
Exodus 32:34, Jeremiah 21:12, Micah 7:4, Exodus 32:34, Jeremiah 21:12
3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
Jeremiah 32:37, Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Jeremiah 32:37, Amos 9:14
4And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:14, Jeremiah 3:15, Jeremiah 3:14, Jeremiah 3:15, 1 Peter 1:5
5Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Isaiah 4:2, Isaiah 4:2, Luke 1:32, Luke 1:33, Luke 1:32
6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.
1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Jeremiah 33:16, Jeremiah 33:16, Philippians 3:9
7Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that they shall no more say, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah 16:14, Jeremiah 16:15, Jeremiah 16:14, Jeremiah 16:15, Jeremiah 23:3
8but, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries whither I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.
Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Isaiah 43:5, Isaiah 43:6, Amos 9:14
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 hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.
Habakkuk 3:16, Habakkuk 3:16, Daniel 8:27, Isaiah 51:21, Lamentations 3:15
10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;
Hosea 4:2, Hosea 4:3, Psalms 107:34, Hosea 4:2, Hosea 4:3
11for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
Zephaniah 3:4, Jeremiah 6:13, Zephaniah 3:4, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 32:34
12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places 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 Jehovah.
Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 13:16, Psalms 35:6, Proverbs 4:19, Jeremiah 11:23
13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Isaiah 9:16, Jeremiah 2:8, Isaiah 9:16, Jeremiah 2:8, 1 Kings 18:18
14In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:10, Jeremiah 29:23, Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:10
15Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 9:15, Lamentations 3:5
16Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:14, Ezekiel 13:6, Ezekiel 13:6, Galatians 1:8
17They say continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.
Micah 3:11, Micah 3:11, Jeremiah 13:10, Jeremiah 13:10, Amos 9:10
18For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word? who hath marked my word, and heard it?
Jeremiah 23:22, Jeremiah 23:22, Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:14, 1 Corinthians 2:16
19Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, even his wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
Jeremiah 30:23, Jeremiah 30:23, Jeremiah 25:32, Jeremiah 25:32, Amos 1:14
20The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.
Jeremiah 30:24, Jeremiah 30:24, Isaiah 55:11, Isaiah 55:11, Zechariah 1:6
21I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 27:15, Jeremiah 27:15, Jeremiah 23:32
22But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah 23:18, Jeremiah 25:5, Zechariah 1:4, Jeremiah 23:18, Jeremiah 25:5
23Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:10, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:10, 1 Kings 20:23
24Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.
Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 15:3, Psalms 139:7, Psalms 139:7, Psalms 90:8
25I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jeremiah 23:32, Jeremiah 23:32, Jeremiah 23:28, Jeremiah 29:8, Joel 2:28
26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2, Jeremiah 14:14
27that think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal.
Judges 8:33, Judges 8:34, Judges 8:33, Judges 8:34, Judges 3:7
28The 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 straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.
2 Corinthians 2:17, 1 Timothy 1:12, 1 Corinthians 3:12, 1 Corinthians 3:13, 2 Corinthians 2:17
29Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:12, Jeremiah 5:14, Jeremiah 5:14, Luke 24:32
30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
Deuteronomy 18:20, Deuteronomy 18:20, Ezekiel 13:8, Ezekiel 13:8, Jeremiah 14:14
31Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
Jeremiah 23:17, Jeremiah 23:17, 2 Chronicles 18:10, 2 Chronicles 18:12, Isaiah 30:10
32Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.
Zephaniah 3:4, Lamentations 2:14, Zephaniah 3:4, Lamentations 2:14, Jeremiah 7:8
33And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, saith Jehovah.
Malachi 1:1, Malachi 1:1, Hosea 9:12, Isaiah 13:1, Habakkuk 1:1
34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.
Zechariah 13:3, Zechariah 13:3, Lamentations 2:14, Lamentations 2:14
35Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What hath Jehovah answered? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?
Jeremiah 42:4, Jeremiah 31:34, Hebrews 8:11, Jeremiah 33:3, Jeremiah 42:4
36And the burden of Jehovah shall ye mention no more: for every man’s own word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts our God.
Isaiah 3:8, 2 Peter 3:16, Isaiah 3:8, 2 Peter 3:16, Psalms 120:3
37Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?
38But if ye say, The burden of Jehovah; therefore thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah;
2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:14, 2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:14
39therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:
Jeremiah 23:33, Jeremiah 23:33, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 6:3
40and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 20:11, Jeremiah 20:11, Ezekiel 5:14, Ezekiel 5:15, Ezekiel 5:14

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