Jeremiah 23:11

New International Version

“Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:5

In both courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts.

2 Chronicles 33:7

He took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.

2 Chronicles 36:14

Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:18

Among the descendants of the priests, the following had married foreign women: From the descendants of Joshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.

Jeremiah 11:15

“What is my beloved doing in my temple as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your punishment? When you engage in your wickedness, then you rejoice.”

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets: “I will make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

Jeremiah 32:34

They set up their vile images in the house that bears my Name and defiled it.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.

Jeremiah 6:13

“From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

Jeremiah 7:30

“ ‘The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

Lamentations 2:20

“Look, Lord, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Ezekiel 23:39

On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.

Ezekiel 44:10

“ ‘The Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray and who wandered from me after their idols must bear the consequences of their sin.

Ezekiel 7:20

They took pride in their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols. They made it into vile images; therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.

Ezekiel 8:11

In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

Ezekiel 8:16

He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are unprincipled; they are treacherous people. Her priests profane the sanctuary and do violence to the law.