Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
Therefore thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
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.
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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
¶ Behold, the days come, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, 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.
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.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, that they shall no more say, The \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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.
¶ 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, and because of the words of his holiness.
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.
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
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.
Therefore thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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.
Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
They say still unto them that despise me, The \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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.
For who hath stood in the counsel of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it*?
Behold, a whirlwind of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
The anger of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** 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.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
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.
Am* I a God at hand, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, and not a God afar off?
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
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;
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.
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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
Is* not my word like as a fire? saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**; and like a hammer that* breaketh the rock in pieces?
Therefore, behold, I am* against the prophets, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.