2 Therefore thus saith our Lord the God of Israel to the Pastors, that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and cast them out, & have not visited them: Behold I will visit upon you the malice of your studies, saith our Lord.📜💬📚

11 For the Prophet and the Priest are polluted: and in my house I have found their evil, saith our Lord.📜💬📚

14 And in the Prophets of Jerusalem I saw the similitude of adulterers, and the way of lying: and they strengthened the hands of the most wicked, that no man would return from his malice: they are all become unto me as Sodoma, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.📜💬📚

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the Prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink, for from the Prophets of Jerusalem is pollution gone forth upon all the land.📜💬📚

16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hear not the words of the Prophets, that prophesy unto you, and deceive you: they speak the vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the Lord.📜💬📚

21 I sent not the Prophets, and they ran: I spake not to them, and they Prophesied.📜💬📚

25 I have heard what the Prophets have said, prophesying in my name lies, and saying: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.📜💬📚

26 How long is this in the heart of the Prophets prophesying lies, and prophesying the seductions of their own heart?📜💬📚

27 Who will make my people to forget my name through their dreams, which every one telleth to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.📜💬📚

28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell the dream: & he that hath my word, let him speak my word truly: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith our Lord?📜💬📚

29 Why, are not my words as fire, saith our Lord: and as a hammer breaking a rock?📜💬📚

30 Therefore behold I to the Prophets, saith our Lord: which steal my words every one from his neighbour.📜💬📚

31 Behold I to the Prophets, saith our Lord: which take their tongues, & say: Our Lord saith it.📜💬📚

32 Behold, I to the Prophets dreaming lies, saith our Lord: which have told those things, & have seduced my people in their lying, & in their miracles: When I had not sent them, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people, saith our Lord.📜💬📚

False Prophecies

33 If therefore this people, or the Prophet, or the Priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of our Lord? Thou shalt say to them: We are the burden: for I will cast you forth, saith our Lord.📜💬📚

34 And the Prophet, and the Priest, and the people that saith: The burden of our Lord will I visit upon that man, and upon his house.📜💬📚

35 Thus shall you say every one to his brother, & neighbour: What hath our Lord answered? And what hath our Lord spoken?📜💬📚

36 And the burden of our Lord shall no more be mentioned: because every man's burden shall be his own word: & you have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts our God.📜💬📚

37 Thus shalt thou say to the Prophet: What hath our Lord answered thee? And what hath our Lord spoken?📜💬📚

38 But if thou shalt say the burden of our Lord: for this, thus saith our Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of our Lord: and I have sent to you, saying: Say not: The burden of our Lord:📜💬📚

39 Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I have given to you, and to your fathers, from before my face.📜💬📚

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David's Righteous Branch

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