# Jeremiah 23

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/23

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Woe to the shepherds who destroy and disperse the flock of my pasture, declares Yahweh.
2. Therefore thus says Yahweh, God of Israel, against the shepherds who tend my people: "You have scattered my flock and driven them away, and have not cared for them; behold, I will hold you accountable for the evil of your deeds," declares Yahweh.
3. I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands to which I have driven them, and will return them to their folds, and they will bear fruit and multiply.
4. I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer fear or be dismayed or go missing, says Yahweh.
5. Behold, days are coming, says Yahweh, when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king and act wisely, and perform justice and righteousness in the land.
6. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; this is his name by which they will call him: Yahweh our righteousness.
7. Therefore, look, days are coming, declares Yahweh, when they will no longer say, “Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt.”
8. but as Yahweh lives, who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where I drove them, they will dwell on their own ground.
9. Concerning the prophets, my heart breaks within me; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, like a man whom wine has mastered, because of Yahweh and because of the words of his holiness.
10. For adulterers fill the land; because of cursing it mourns; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up, their course is evil, and their might is not right.
11. For prophet and priest alike are defiled; even in my house I have found their wickedness, says Yahweh.
12. Therefore their way will be slippery places for them in darkness; they will be driven away and fall in it, for I will bring calamity upon them, the year of their reckoning, declares Yahweh.
13. In the prophets of Samaria I saw folly; they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
14. Among Jerusalem's prophets I have seen an outrage: adultery and a path of deceit, as they bolster the hands of those who do evil so no one turns from his wickedness; to me they have all become like Sodom, its dwellers like Gomorrah.
15. Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will make them eat wormwood and drink waters of gall, for godlessness has gone out from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.
16. Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you—they deceive you, speaking a vision from their own heart, not from the mouth of Yahweh.
17. They say to those who despise me, "Yahweh has spoken: Peace will be yours," and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, "No evil will come upon you."
18. For who has stood in the council of Yahweh and seen and heard his word? Who has heeded my word and heard his word?
19. Behold, Yahweh's storm of fury has gone forth—a whirling storm whirling upon the head of the wicked.
20. Yahweh's anger will not turn back until he carries it out and fulfills the plans of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
21. I have not sent the prophets, but they ran; I have not spoken to them, but they prophesied.
22. But if they had stood in my council and proclaimed my words to my people, they would have turned them from their evil way and from the wickedness of their deeds.
23. Am I a God close by, says Yahweh, and not a God far away?
24. Can anyone hide himself in secret places without my seeing him? says Yahweh. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? says Yahweh.
25. I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsehood in my name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed."
26. How long is it in the heart of prophets who prophesy lies, prophets of their heart's deceit?
27. who plot to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they recount each to his fellow, just as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28. The prophet who has a dream shall recount a dream, and whoever has my word shall speak my word in truth. What is chaff to wheat? declares Yahweh.
29. Is not my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that shatters the rock?
30. Therefore, look, I oppose the prophets who steal my words each from his neighbor, says Yahweh.
31. See, I am against the prophets who handle their tongues and say, “Oracle,” declares Yahweh.
32. Behold, I oppose prophets of false dreams, says Yahweh, who recount them and mislead my people through their lies and their recklessness; yet I did not send them, nor command them, nor do they benefit this people at all, says Yahweh.
33. If this people, or the prophet, or priest asks you, “What is Yahweh’s burden?”, then say to them, “What burden? I reject you,” declares Yahweh.
34. The prophet, the priest, and the people who say "Yahweh's burden"—I will punish that man and his house.
35. Thus you will say, each man to his neighbor and each man to his brother, "What has Yahweh answered? And what has Yahweh spoken?"
36. No longer mention Yahweh's burden, for every man's word will be his burden, since you have twisted the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.
37. Thus you are to say to the prophet: "What has Yahweh answered you? And what has Yahweh spoken?"
38. But if you say, "burden of Yahweh," therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you said this word, "burden of Yahweh," and I sent to you, saying, "Do not say, 'burden of Yahweh.'"
39. Therefore, look, I will completely forget you and abandon you and the city that I gave you and your fathers from before me.
40. And I will bring everlasting reproach upon you, and eternal shame, which will not be forgotten.

## Nearby chapters

[Jeremiah 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/22.md)
[Jeremiah 24](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/24.md)

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