These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Jeremiah 23
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Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter The sheep of My pasture! saith .
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Jeremiah 10:21 Zechariah 11:15-17 Ezekiel 34:2-10 Matthew 9:36 Ezekiel 13:3 Jeremiah 2:8 Jeremiah 22:22 Jeremiah 12:10 Isaiah 56:9-12 Matthew 23:13-29 Matthew 15:14 Luke 11:42-52 John 10:10 Zechariah 11:5-7 Zephaniah 3:3-4 John 10:12 Jeremiah 2:26 Micah 3:11-12 Jeremiah 50:6 Ezekiel 22:25-29 Jeremiah 25:34-36 Jeremiah 23:2 Jeremiah 23:11-15 Ezekiel 34:31 Ezekiel 34:21 - 2 Therefore thus saith , the of , against the shepherds that feed My people: Ye have scattered My flock, and driven them away, and have not taken care of them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith .
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And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
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And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith .
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Behold, the days come, saith , that I will raise unto a righteous shoot, and he shall reign as and prosper, and shall execute justice and in the land.
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Isaiah 4:2 Isaiah 52:13 Luke 1:32-33 Isaiah 53:2 Isaiah 9:7 Zechariah 3:8 Isaiah 11:1-5 Zechariah 6:12-13 Zechariah 9:9 Isaiah 32:1-2 Jeremiah 30:9 Daniel 9:24 Revelation 19:11 Jeremiah 31:27 Amos 9:11 Hosea 3:5 Isaiah 53:10 Isaiah 40:9-11 John 1:45 Jeremiah 22:15 Jeremiah 22:30 Psalm 80:15 John 1:49 Psalm 45:4 Ezekiel 17:22-24 Jeremiah 22:3 Ezekiel 17:2-10 Psalm 72:1-2 Jeremiah 30:3 Hebrews 8:8 Matthew 2:2 Ezekiel 34:29 Jeremiah 31:31-38 Jeremiah 23:6 Jeremiah 33:14-16 -
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In his days shall be saved, and shall dwell safely; and this is his whereby he shall be called, The is our .
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1 Corinthians 1:30 Romans 3:22 Matthew 1:21-23 Jeremiah 33:16 Philippians 3:9 2 Corinthians 5:21 Daniel 9:24 Jeremiah 30:10 Jeremiah 32:37 Isaiah 9:6 Isaiah 7:14 Hosea 2:18 Zechariah 10:6 Isaiah 54:17 Isaiah 2:4 Hosea 1:7 Obadiah 1:17 Zechariah 2:4-5 Luke 19:9-10 Zechariah 3:10 1 Kings 4:25 Isaiah 12:1-2 Isaiah 33:22 Isaiah 35:9 Zephaniah 3:13 Psalm 130:7-8 Romans 11:26-27 Obadiah 1:21 Isaiah 45:24-25 Deuteronomy 33:28-29 Isaiah 45:17 Ezekiel 34:25-28 Ezekiel 37:24-28 Luke 1:71-74 Zechariah 14:9-11 -
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith , that they shall no more say: ‘As liveth, that brought up the children of out of the land of Egypt’;
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- 8 but: ‘As liveth, that brought up and that led the seed of the house of out of the north country, and from all the countries whither I had driven them’; and they shall dwell in their own land.
- 9 Concerning the prophets. My within me is broken, All my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine hath overcome; Because of , And because of His words.
- 10 For the land is full of adulterers; For because of swearing the land mourneth, The pastures of the wilderness are dried up; And their course is evil, And their force is not right.
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For both and are unElohimly; Yea, in My house have I found their wickedness, Saith .
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- 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness, They shall be thrust, and fall therein; For I will bring evil upon them, Even the year of their visitation, Saith .
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And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of : They prophesied by Baal, And caused My people to err.
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But in the prophets of I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery, and walk in lies, And they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, That none doth return from his wickedness; They are all of them become unto Me as Sodom, And the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
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Jeremiah 29:23 Isaiah 1:9-10 Jeremiah 23:32 Ezekiel 22:25 Jeremiah 14:14 Genesis 18:20 Ezekiel 13:22-23 Matthew 11:24 Deuteronomy 32:32 Isaiah 41:6-7 Revelation 11:8 2 Peter 2:1-2 Jeremiah 23:17 Jeremiah 5:30-31 Jeremiah 18:13 Ezekiel 13:2-4 2 Peter 2:14-19 Revelation 22:15 Zephaniah 3:4 Jeremiah 23:25-26 Ezekiel 13:16 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 Micah 3:11 Jude 1:7 Jeremiah 20:16 Revelation 19:20 Genesis 13:13 Revelation 21:8 2 Peter 2:6 Ezekiel 16:46-52 1 Timothy 4:2 Malachi 1:1 - 15 Therefore thus saith 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 Is unElohimliness gone forth into all the land.
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Thus saith of hosts: Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you, They lead you unto vanity; They speak a of their own , And not out of the mouth of .
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Jeremiah 27:9-10 Matthew 7:15 Jeremiah 14:14 Ezekiel 13:3 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Jeremiah 23:21 Jeremiah 27:14-17 Ezekiel 13:6 1 John 4:1 Jeremiah 23:26 Galatians 1:8-9 Jeremiah 29:8 Ezekiel 22:28 Proverbs 19:27 Jeremiah 2:5 2 Kings 17:15 Ezekiel 13:23 Jeremiah 9:20 Micah 2:11 Ezekiel 13:16 Romans 1:21 -
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They say continually unto them that despise Me: ‘The hath said: Ye shall have peace’; And unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own they say: ‘No evil shall come upon you’;
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Micah 3:11 Jeremiah 13:10 Amos 9:10 Jeremiah 8:11 Jeremiah 9:14 Zechariah 10:2 Ezekiel 13:22 Jeremiah 3:17 Deuteronomy 29:19 Jeremiah 6:14 Jeremiah 5:12 Numbers 11:20 Jeremiah 18:18 Ezekiel 13:10 Micah 3:5 Isaiah 57:21 Jeremiah 7:24 Isaiah 3:10-11 1 Samuel 2:30 Lamentations 2:14 Malachi 1:6 Jeremiah 28:3-9 Luke 10:16 Ezekiel 13:15-16 2 Samuel 12:10 Jeremiah 4:10 Jeremiah 14:13-14 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Zephaniah 1:12 - 18 For who hath stood in the council of , That he should perceive and His ? Who hath attended to His , and heard it?
- 19 Behold, a storm of is gone forth in fury, Yea, a whirling storm; It shall whirl upon the head of the wicked.
- 20 The anger of shall not return, Until He have executed, and till He have performed the purposes of His ; In the end of days ye shall consider it perfectly.
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I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
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- 22 But if they have stood in My council, Then let them cause My people to My words, And turn them from their evil way, And from the evil of their doings.
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Am I a near at hand, saith , And not a afar off?
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Can any hide himself in secret places That I shall not see him? saith . Do not I fill and earth? Saith .
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- 25 I have heard what the prophets have said, That prophesy lies in My , saying: ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed.’
- 26 How long shall this be? Is it in the of the prophets that prophesy lies, And the prophets of the deceit of their own ?
- 27 That think to cause My people to forget My By their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, As their fathers forgot My for Baal.
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The that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; And he that hath My ; let him speak My faithfully. What hath the straw to do with the wheat? Saith .
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- 29 Is not My like as fire? Saith ; And like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
- 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith , that steal My words every one from his neighbour.
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Behold, I am against the prophets, saith , that use there tongues and say: ‘He saith.’
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Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith , and do tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their wantonness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither can they profit this people at all, saith .
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- 33 And when this people, or the , or a , shall ask thee, saying: ‘What is the burden of ?’ then shalt thou say unto them: ‘What burden! I will cast you off, saith .’
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And as for the , and the , and the people, that shall say: ‘The burden of Yahweh’, I will even punish that man and his house.
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Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother: ‘What hath answered?’ and: ‘What hath spoken?’
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And the burden of shall ye mention no more; for every man’s own shall be his burden; and would ye pervert the words of the living , of of hosts our ?
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2 Peter 3:16 2 Kings 19:4 Jeremiah 10:10 1 Thessalonians 1:9 1 Samuel 17:26 Galatians 6:5 Galatians 1:7-9 Isaiah 28:22 Proverbs 17:20 Matthew 12:36 Luke 19:22 Psalm 64:8 Deuteronomy 5:26 1 Samuel 17:36 Psalm 12:3 Acts 14:15 2 Peter 2:17-18 Jude 1:15-16 Isaiah 3:8 Isaiah 28:13-14 Psalm 120:3 Psalm 149:9 - 37 Thus shalt thou say to the : ‘What hath answered thee?’ and: ‘What hath spoken?’
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But if ye say: ‘The burden of Yahweh’; therefore thus saith : Because ye say this : ‘The burden of Yahweh’, and I have sent unto you, saying: ‘Ye shall not say: The burden of Yahweh’;
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therefore, behold, I will utterly tear you out, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from My presence;
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Jeremiah 23:33 Ezekiel 8:18 Proverbs 13:13 Isaiah 48:15 Ezekiel 34:11 Jeremiah 7:15 Lamentations 5:20 Genesis 6:17 Jeremiah 52:3 Jeremiah 36:31 Ezekiel 9:6 Isaiah 51:12 Jeremiah 32:28-35 Hosea 5:14 Deuteronomy 32:39 Ezekiel 6:3 Psalm 51:11 Ezekiel 34:20 Ezekiel 5:8 Hosea 9:12-17 Jeremiah 35:17 Leviticus 26:28 Matthew 25:41 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Hosea 4:6 - 40 and I will bring an reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten