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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
and because of his holy words.
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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.
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Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even in my house I have found their wickedness,
+qsays the
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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,
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In the prophets of Samaria
I saw a disgusting thing:
they prophesied by Baal
and led my people Israel astray.
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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.
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Therefore thus says the
"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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Thus says the
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For who has stood in the council of the
so as to see and to hear his word?
Who has given heed to his word so as to proclaim it?
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Look, the storm of the
Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
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The anger of the
until he has executed and accomplished
the intents of his mind.
In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
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I did not send the prophets,
yet they ran;
I did not speak to them,
yet they prophesied.
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But if they had stood in my council,
then they would have proclaimed my words to my people,
and they would have turned them from their evil way,
and from the evil of their doings.
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Am I a God near by, says the
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When this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, "What is the burden of the