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id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/jeremiah/23.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Coming Messiah: the Righteous Branch</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>“Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>“I will also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“Behold, <i>the</i> days are coming,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> “When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch;<br> And He will reign as king and act wisely<br> And do justice and righteousness in the land.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>“In His days Judah will be saved,<br> And Israel will dwell securely;<br> And this is His name by which He will be called,<br> ‘The L<font size="1">ORD</font> our righteousness.’<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“Therefore behold, <i>the</i> days are coming,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the L<font size="1">ORD</font> lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>but, ‘As the L<font size="1">ORD</font> lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from <i>the</i> north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>False Prophets Denounced</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>As for the prophets:<br> My heart is broken within me,<br> All my bones tremble;<br> I have become like a drunken man,<br> Even like a man overcome with wine,<br> Because of the L<font size="1">ORD</font><br> And because of His holy words.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>For the land is full of adulterers;<br> For the land mourns because of the curse.<br> The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.<br> Their course also is evil<br> And their might is not right.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>“For both prophet and priest are polluted;<br> Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them,<br> They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it;<br> For I will bring calamity upon them,<br> The year of their punishment,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing:<br> They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:<br> The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood;<br> And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,<br> So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.<br> All of them have become to Me like Sodom,<br> And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.<br><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“Therefore thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts concerning the prophets,<br> ‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood<br> And make them drink poisonous water,<br> For from the prophets of Jerusalem<br> Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts,<br> “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.<br> They are leading you into futility;<br> They speak a vision of their own imagination,<br> Not from the mouth of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“They keep saying to those who despise Me,<br> ‘The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has said, “You will have peace”’;<br> And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,<br> They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“But who has stood in the council of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> That he should see and hear His word?<br> Who has given heed to His word and listened?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“Behold, the storm of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has gone forth in wrath,<br> Even a whirling tempest;<br> It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“The anger of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will not turn back<br> Until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart;<br> In the last days you will clearly understand it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>“I did not send <i>these</i> prophets,<br> But they ran.<br> I did not speak to them,<br> But they prophesied.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>“But if they had stood in My council,<br> Then they would have announced My words to My people,<br> And would have turned them back from their evil way<br> And from the evil of their deeds.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>“Am I a God who is near,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> “And not a God far off?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>“Can a man hide himself in hiding places<br> So I do not see him?” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<br> “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>“How long? Is there <i>anything</i> in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even <i>these</i> prophets of the deception of their own heart, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>who intend to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they relate to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>“The prophet who has a dream may relate <i>his</i> dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have <i>in common</i> with grain?” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>“Is not My word like fire?” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, “who steal My words from each other. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>“Behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, “who use their tongues and declare, ‘<i>The Lord</i> declares.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>“Behold, I am against those who have prophesied false dreams,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, “and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them or command them, nor do they furnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>“Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you saying, ‘What is the oracle of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What oracle?’ The L<font size="1">ORD</font> declares, ‘I will abandon you.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>“Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The oracle of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,’ I will bring punishment upon that man and his household. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>“Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and to his brother, ‘What has the L<font size="1">ORD</font> answered?’ or, ‘What has the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoken?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>“For you will no longer remember the oracle of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, because every man’s own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, our God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>“Thus you will say to <i>that</i> prophet, ‘What has the L<font size="1">ORD</font> answered you?’ and, ‘What has the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoken?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>“For if you say, ‘The oracle of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>!’ surely thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, ‘Because you said this word, “The oracle of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>!” I have also sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>!’”’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>“Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/23-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>“I will put an everlasting reproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten.”<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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