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Jeremiah 23:9

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

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I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.

I, Daniel, was worn out. I lay exhausted for several days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was appalled by the vision; it was beyond understanding.

He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.

Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.

You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.

and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”

Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.

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?

Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.

Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley— to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.

You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”

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




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