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Jeremiah 23:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the  Lord, because of his holy words.

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I heard, and I trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Rottenness entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Now I must quietly wait for the day of distress to come against the people invading us.


I, Daniel, was overcome and lay ill for days.  Then I got up and went about the king’s business.  I was greatly disturbed by the vision and could not understand it.


He filled me with bitterness, satiated me with wormwood.


So listen to this, suffering and drunken one #– #but not with wine.


Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again


Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women,  but do not come near anyone who has the mark.  Begin at my sanctuary.’  So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.


‘Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,’ the Lord said to him, ‘and put a mark on the foreheads  of the men who sigh and groan  over all the detestable practices committed in it.’


If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear   people.


The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?


Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk,  but not with wine; they stagger,  but not with beer.


Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendour, which is on the summit above the rich valley. Woe to those overcome with wine.


Then I said: Woe is me,  for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies.


My joy has flown away; grief has settled on me. My heart is sick.


I say, ‘I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.’ But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.


When they had heard all the words, they turned to each other in fear and said to Baruch, ‘We must surely tell the king all these things.’


This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.





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