Jeremiah 23:1-20

“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” It is a declaration of ADONAI. Therefore thus says ADONAI, the God of Israel, about the shepherds who feed My people: “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and have not taken care of them. I will soon visit on you the evil of your deeds.” It is a declaration of ADONAI. “I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them back to their folds, and they will be fruitful and multiply. I will raise up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing,” It is a declaration of ADONAI. “Behold, days are coming” —it is a declaration of ADONAI— “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign as king wisely, and execute justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in safely; and this is His Name by which He will be called: ADONAI our righteousness. “Therefore behold, days are coming,” says ADONAI, “when they will no longer say: ‘As ADONAI lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.’ Rather, ‘As ADONAI lives, who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ So they will dwell in their own soil. As for the prophets: My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine because of ADONAI, because of His holy words. For the land is full of adulterers. The land mourns because of a curse. Pastures of the wilderness are dry. Their running is evil, and their might is not right. For both prophet and kohen are ungodly. Even in My House I found their evil.” It is a declaration of ADONAI. “Therefore their way will be for them like slippery places in the gloom. They will be driven away and fall there, for I will bring calamity on them, even the year of their visitation.” It is a declaration of ADONAI. Moreover, I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray. But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: committing adultery and walking in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers. No one turns back from his evil. They are all like Sodom to Me and her inhabitants like Gomorrah.” Therefore thus says ADONAI-Tzva’ot concerning the prophets: “I myself will feed them wormwood and make them drink poisoned water. For from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has spread into all the land.” Thus says ADONAI-Tzva’ot: “Do not listen to the words of prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into illusion, speaking a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of ADONAI. They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘ADONAI has said, you will have shalom.’ To everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say: ‘No evil will come on you.’” For who has stood in the council of ADONAI, that he should see and hear His word? Who has heard to His word and obeyed? Look, a storm of ADONAI goes out in fury, yes, a whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked. The anger of ADONAI will not turn until He has executed and fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In the last days you will discern it clearly.