Jeremiah 23:11

The Passion Translation

Yahweh declares, “Even the prophets and priests are ungodly! I have seen their wickedness in my own temple.

Cross References

Jeremiah 11:15

“My dearly beloved ones have done so much evil that they no longer have a right to come into my temple. Can the flesh of their many sacrifices avert their doom? When I send calamity, they will have nothing to be joyful about.

Jeremiah 23:15

“I, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, say this about the prophets: The prophets of Jerusalem have spewed their spiritual poison throughout the land. Therefore, I will make them drink poisoned water and feed them bitter food.

Jeremiah 32:34

Instead, they have defiled the house that bears my name by placing their detestable idols inside it.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies, and the priests lead out of their own self-interest. And my people love it that way. But what will they do when judgment comes?”

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like lost sheep; their shepherds led them astray. They are lost, wandering about in the mountains. They went from mountain to hill, forgetting their resting place.

Jeremiah 6:13

“From the smallest to the greatest, they are greedy for corrupt profits; prophet and priest alike, they all practice deceit.

Jeremiah 7:30

For Yahweh says: ‘The people of Judah have done what is evil before my eyes. They have defiled the house that bears my name by placing their detestable idols inside it.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to those who will take over the land. From the smallest to the greatest, they are all greedy for corrupt profits; priest and prophet alike, they all practice deceit.

Lamentations 2:20

“Look, Yahweh, and please consider. Whom have you ever treated this way? Should women eat their offspring, the little ones they have nursed? Should priests and prophets be slaughtered in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Ezekiel 23:39

The same day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they came into my sanctuary and made it unfit for worship. Yes, this is what they have done in my own house!

Ezekiel 44:10

For the Levites who abandoned me when Israel turned their backs on me to worship their false gods must bear the consequences of their own sin.

Ezekiel 7:20

Once they were so proud of their beautiful jewelry, out of which they made their disgusting, horrible idols. Now I have made their wealth and jewels repulsive to them.

Ezekiel 8:11

Worshiping these animals were seventy leaders of Israel, and standing among them was Jaazaniah son of Shaphan. Each one had an incense burner in his hand, from which rose a fragrant cloud of incense.

Ezekiel 8:16

Next he transported me to the north gate to the inner court of his temple. And there, at the entrance to Yahweh’s sanctuary, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men standing with their faces to the east worshiping the sun with their backs to Yahweh’s sanctuary. They bowed down to the east, before the rising sun.