Jeremiah 23:9-22

9As for the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,

All my bones tremble;

I have become like a drunken man,

And like a man overcome by wine,

Because of the Lord

And because of His holy words.

10For the land is full of adulterers;

For the land mourns because of the curse.

The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

Their course is evil

And their might is not right.

11“For both prophet and priest are defiled;

Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

12“Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them,

They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it;

For I will bring disaster upon them,

The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.

13“Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing:

They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.

14“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:

The committing of adultery and walking in deceit;

And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,

So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.

All of them have become to Me like Sodom,

And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

¹⁵Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says concerning the prophets:

‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood

And make them drink poisonous water,

For from the prophets of Jerusalem

Ungodliness has spread into all the land.’ ”

16This is what the Lord of armies says:

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.

They are leading you into futility;

They tell a vision of their own imagination,

Not from the mouth of the Lord.

17“They keep saying to those who despise Me,

‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace” ’;

And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,

They say, ‘Disaster will not come on you.’

18“But who has stood in the council of the Lord,

That he should see and hear His word?

Who has paid attention to His word and listened?

19“Behold, the storm of the Lord has gone forth in wrath,

Even a whirling tempest;

It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

20“The anger of the Lord will not turn back

Until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart;

In the last days you will clearly understand it.

21“I did not send these prophets,

But they ran.

I did not speak to them,

But they prophesied.

22“But if they had stood in My council,

Then they would have announced My words to My people,

And would have turned them back from their evil way

And from the evil of their deeds.