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Jeremiah 5:31

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The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”

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So the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about 400 men, and asked them: “Should I march against Ramot-gilead to battle or should I refrain?” They responded, “Go up, for my Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

An evildoer listens to wicked lips; a liar listens to a malicious tongue.

What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Then the inhabitants of the coastland will say in that day, ‘Look, such is our hope—there we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”

Sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can live with the consuming fire?” “Who among us can live with everlasting burnings?”

Your first father sinned, and your mediators rebelled against Me.

You said, “Forever, I will be the eternal mistress-queen!” You did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

How long will the land mourn and the grass of all the field wither? Because those living in it are evil, beasts and birds are swept away. For they said, “He cannot see our end.”

Then Adonai said to me: “The prophets prophesy lies in My Name! I did not send them, nor commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, divination, futility, a delusion of their heart.”

So the kohanim, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the House of Adonai.

Her uncleanness was in her skirts. She did not consider her future. Her demise was astonishing, there was no one to comfort her. “Adonai, see my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”

Your prophets have seen for you false and worthless visions. They did not expose your iniquity, so as to restore your captivity. Rather, they have seen for you false and worthless oracles.

Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her kohanim, who shed in her midst the blood of the tzadikim .

They hunted our steps, so we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near. Our days were numbered, for our end had come.

Precisely because they have led My people astray saying, ‘Shalom’ when there is no shalom, they build a weak wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash.

They have prophesied emptiness and predicted falsely, who say, “Adonai says.” Adonai has not sent them, yet they hope for confirmation of their word.

Will your heart’s courage stand or your hands be strong in the days when I deal with you? I, Adonai, have spoken it and will do it.

But it will be like people, like kohen. So I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim’s prostitution is there, Israel has become unclean.

What will you do for a moed or for the day of Adonai’s feast?

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood speaks lies—“I will prophesy for you of wine and strong drink”—then he would be a spokesman of this people.

“Do not prophesy,” they prophesy. Unless they prophesy about such things, He will not turn back reproaches.”

Her leaders give judgment for a bribe. Her priests give direction for a price. Her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on Adonai by saying: “Is not Adonai in our midst? No calamity will come upon us!”

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men. Her kohanim have profaned what is holy. They do violence to Torah.

He said, “I will hide My face from them, I want to see their hereafter. For they are an upside down generation, children with no faithfulness in them.

“If they were wise, they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter.




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