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Jeremiah 23:9

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

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You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.

Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!

Astonish yourselves[2] and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!

Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine:

And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

My joy is gone; grief is upon me;[3] my heart is sick within me.

[1] Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

And the LORD said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it."

Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.

And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it.

I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.




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