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The
Coming Messiah: the Righteous Branch |
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| Jeremiah 23:1 |
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"Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and
scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:2 |
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Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning
the shepherds who are tending My people: "You have scattered My flock and driven
them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you
for the evil of your deeds," declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:3 |
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Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My
flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to
their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply. |
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| Jeremiah 23:4 |
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"I will also raise up shepherds over them and
they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified,
nor will any be missing," declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:5 |
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"Behold, the days are coming," declares the
LORD, "When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as
king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. |
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| Jeremiah 23:6 |
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"In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel
will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, 'The LORD
our righteousness.' |
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| Jeremiah 23:7 |
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"Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares
the LORD, "when they will no longer say, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the
sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,' |
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| Jeremiah 23:8 |
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but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up and
led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from
all the countries where I had driven them.' Then they will live on their own soil." |
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False Prophets Denounced |
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| Jeremiah 23:9 |
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As for the prophets: My heart is broken within
me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, Even like a man overcome
with wine, Because of the LORD And because of His holy words. |
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| Jeremiah 23:10 |
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For the land is full of adulterers; For the
land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also is evil And their might is not right. |
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| Jeremiah 23:11 |
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"For both prophet and priest are polluted; Even
in My house I have found their wickedness," declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:12 |
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"Therefore their way will be like slippery paths
to them, They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it; For I will
bring calamity upon them, The year of their punishment," declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:13 |
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"Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw
an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray. |
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| Jeremiah 23:14 |
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"Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have
seen a horrible thing: The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood; And
they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one has turned back from his
wickedness. All of them have become to Me like Sodom, And her inhabitants like
Gomorrah. |
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| Jeremiah 23:15 |
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"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning
the prophets, 'Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous
water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the
land.'" |
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| Jeremiah 23:16 |
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Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Do not listen
to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you
into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth
of the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:17 |
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"They keep saying to those who despise Me, 'The
LORD has said, "You will have peace"'; And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness
of his own heart, They say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.' |
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| Jeremiah 23:18 |
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"But who has stood in the council of the LORD,
That he should see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and listened? |
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| Jeremiah 23:19 |
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"Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth
in wrath, Even a whirling tempest; It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.
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| Jeremiah 23:20 |
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"The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until
He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; In the last days you
will clearly understand it. |
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| Jeremiah 23:21 |
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"I did not send these prophets, But they ran.
I did not speak to them, But they prophesied. |
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| Jeremiah 23:22 |
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"But if they had stood in My council, Then they
would have announced My words to My people, And would have turned them back from
their evil way And from the evil of their deeds. |
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| Jeremiah 23:23 |
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"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD,
"And not a God far off? |
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| Jeremiah 23:24 |
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"Can a man hide himself in hiding places So
I do not see him?" declares the LORD. "Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?"
declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:25 |
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"I have heard what the prophets have said who
prophesy falsely in My name, saying, 'I had a dream, I had a dream!' |
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| Jeremiah 23:26 |
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"How long? Is there anything in the hearts of
the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their
own heart, |
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| Jeremiah 23:27 |
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who intend to make My people forget My name
by their dreams which they relate to one another, just as their fathers forgot
My name because of Baal? |
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| Jeremiah 23:28 |
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"The prophet who has a dream may relate his
dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have
in common with grain?" declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:29 |
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"Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD,
"and like a hammer which shatters a rock? |
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| Jeremiah 23:30 |
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"Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,"
declares the LORD, "who steal My words from each other. |
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| Jeremiah 23:31 |
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"Behold, I am against the prophets," declares
the LORD, "who use their tongues and declare, `The Lord declares.' |
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| Jeremiah 23:32 |
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"Behold, I am against those who have prophesied
false dreams," declares the LORD, "and related them and led My people astray by
their falsehoods and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them or command them,
nor do they furnish this people the slightest benefit," declares the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 23:33 |
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"Now when this people or the prophet or a priest
asks you saying, 'What is the oracle of the LORD?' then you shall say to them,
'What oracle?' The LORD declares, 'I will abandon you.' |
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| Jeremiah 23:34 |
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"Then as for the prophet or the priest or the
people who say, 'The oracle of the LORD,' I will bring punishment upon that man
and his household. |
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| Jeremiah 23:35 |
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"Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and
to his brother, 'What has the LORD answered?' or, 'What has the LORD spoken?' |
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| Jeremiah 23:36 |
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"For you will no longer remember the oracle
of the LORD, because every man's own word will become the oracle, and you have
perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God. |
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| Jeremiah 23:37 |
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"Thus you will say to that prophet, 'What has
the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?' |
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| Jeremiah 23:38 |
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"For if you say, 'The oracle of the LORD!' surely
thus says the LORD, 'Because you said this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" I have
also sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, 'The oracle of the LORD!'"' |
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| Jeremiah 23:39 |
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"Therefore behold, I will surely forget you
and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your
fathers. |
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| Jeremiah 23:40 |
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"I will put an everlasting reproach on you and
an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten." |
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