Jeremiah 23 (NET)

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Jeremiah 23:1¹The Lord says, “The leaders of my people are sure to be judged. They were supposed to watch over my people like shepherds watch over their sheep. But they are causing my people to be destroyed and scattered.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 10:21 Zech 11:15-17 Ezek 34:2-10 Ezek 13:3 Matt 9:36 Jer 12:10 Jer 22:22 Isa 56:9-12 Luke 11:42-52 Jer 2:8

Jeremiah 23:2²So the Lord God of Israel has this to say about the leaders who are ruling over his people: “You have caused my people to be dispersed and driven into exile. You have not taken care of them. So I will punish you for the evil that you have done. I, the Lord, affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 32:34 Jer 21:12 Mic 7:4 Jer 23:34 Hos 2:13 Jas 1:27 Jer 11:22 Jer 13:21 Jer 5:29 Jer 5:9

Jeremiah 23:3³Then I myself will regather those of my people who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. They will greatly increase in number.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 9:14-15 Jer 32:37 Isa 43:5-6 Jer 29:14 Jer 30:3 Zeph 3:19-20 Ezek 37:21-27 Ezek 11:17 Ezek 34:11-31 Jer 31:8

Jeremiah 23:4⁴I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the Lord, promise it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 3:14-15 1 Pet 1:5 Acts 20:28-29 Ezek 34:23-31 Hos 3:3-5 Isa 11:11 Jer 30:10 Jer 31:10 Jer 33:26 Jer 46:27-28

Jeremiah 23:5⁵“I, the Lord, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 4:2 Luke 1:32-33 Isa 52:13 Isa 9:7 Zech 6:12-13 Zech 3:8 Isa 11:1-5 Isa 32:1-2 Isa 53:2 Jer 31:31-38

Jeremiah 23:6⁶Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by: ‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:30 Phil 3:9 Jer 33:16 Matt 1:21-23 Dan 9:24 Isa 54:17 Isa 7:14 Rom 11:26-27 Rom 3:22 Deut 33:28-29

Jeremiah 23:7⁷“So I, the Lord, say: ‘A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with, “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 16:14-15 Jer 23:3 Isa 43:18-19 Jer 31:31-34

Jeremiah 23:8⁸But at that time they will affirm them with, “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the descendants of the former nation of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.” At that time they will live in their own land.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 9:14-15 Isa 43:5-6 Ezek 34:13 Ezek 36:24 Ezek 37:25 Ezek 39:28 Isa 14:1 Isa 27:12-13 Jer 23:3 Zeph 3:20

Jeremiah 23:9⁹Here is what the Lord says concerning the false prophets: My heart and my mind are deeply disturbed. I tremble all over. I am like a drunk person, like a person who has had too much wine, because of the way the Lord and his holy word are being mistreated.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 3:16 Dan 8:27 Isa 51:21 Lam 3:15 Ps 60:3 2 Kgs 22:19-20 Ezek 9:4 Ezek 9:6 Isa 28:1 Isa 29:9

Jeremiah 23:10¹⁰For the land is full of people unfaithful to him. They live wicked lives and they misuse their power. So the land is dried up because it is under his curse. The pastures in the wilderness are withered.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 4:2-3 Ps 107:34 Jer 5:7-8 Jer 9:10 Jer 9:2 Mal 3:5 Ezek 22:9-11 Isa 24:6 1 Cor 6:9-10 1 Tim 1:10

Jeremiah 23:11¹¹Moreover, the Lord says, “Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 6:13 Zeph 3:4 Matt 21:12-13 Ezek 23:39 Jer 32:34 2 Chr 36:14 Ezek 8:16 Jer 11:15 Jer 7:10-11 Jer 7:30

Jeremiah 23:12¹²So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” The Lord affirms it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 13:16 Jer 11:23 Prov 4:19 Ps 35:6 Exod 32:34 Isa 8:22 Jer 48:44 John 12:35 Ps 73:18 1 John 2:11

Jeremiah 23:13¹³The Lord says, “I saw the prophets of Samaria doing something that was disgusting. They prophesied in the name of the god Baal and led my people Israel astray.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 9:16 Jer 2:8 1 Kgs 18:18-21 Hos 9:7-8 2 Chr 33:9 1 Kgs 18:25-28 1 Kgs 18:40

Jeremiah 23:14¹⁴But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:9-10 Jer 29:23 Ezek 22:25 Deut 32:32 Ezek 13:22-23 Gen 18:20 Jer 14:14 Jer 23:32 Mic 3:11 Ezek 13:2-4

Jeremiah 23:15¹⁵So then I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: ‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 8:14 Jer 9:15 Lam 3:15 Lam 3:5 Ps 69:21 Lam 3:19 Matt 27:34 Rev 8:11

Jeremiah 23:16¹⁶The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says to the people of Jerusalem: “Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the Lord has given them to say.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:14 Ezek 13:6 2 Cor 11:13-15 Ezek 13:3 Gal 1:8-9 Jer 27:9-10 Matt 7:15 1 John 4:1 2 Kgs 17:15 Jer 23:21

Jeremiah 23:17¹⁷They continually say to those who reject what the Lord has said, ‘Things will go well for you!’ They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 3:11 Jer 13:10 Amos 9:10 Deut 29:19 Jer 5:12 Jer 8:11 Jer 9:14 Mic 3:5 Ezek 13:10 Jer 18:18

Jeremiah 23:18¹⁸Yet which of them has ever stood in the Lord ’s inner circle so they could see and hear what he has to say? Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:22 1 Cor 2:16 Amos 3:7 Isa 40:13-14 1 Kgs 22:24 2 Chr 18:23 Job 15:8-10 John 15:15 Ps 25:14

Jeremiah 23:19¹⁹But just watch! The wrath of the Lord will come like a storm! Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 30:23 Jer 25:32 Amos 1:14 Isa 21:1 Prov 10:25 Nah 1:3-6 Isa 40:24 Isa 5:25-28 Isa 66:15-16 Jer 4:11

Jeremiah 23:20²⁰The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. In future days you people will come to understand this clearly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 30:24 Isa 55:11 Gen 49:1 Isa 14:24 Prov 21:30 Zech 1:6 1 Kgs 8:47 2 Kgs 23:26 Deut 31:29-30 Hos 3:4-5

Jeremiah 23:21²¹I did not send those prophets, yet they were in a hurry to give their message. I did not tell them anything, yet they prophesied anyway.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:14 Jer 27:15 Jer 23:32 Jer 28:15 Jer 29:31 Jer 29:9 Acts 13:4 Isa 6:8 John 20:21 Rom 10:15

Jeremiah 23:22²²But if they had stood in my inner circle, they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:18 Jer 25:5 Zech 1:4 Acts 20:27 Ezek 13:22 Jer 35:15 1 Thess 5:6 Acts 26:18-20 Ezek 18:30 Ezek 2:7

Jeremiah 23:23²³Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 139:1-10 1 Kgs 20:23 1 Kgs 20:28 Ezek 20:32-35 Jonah 1:3-4 Ps 113:5

Jeremiah 23:24²⁴“Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the Lord asks. “Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the Lord asks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 15:3 Ps 139:7 Ps 90:8 Isa 29:15 1 Kgs 8:27 Ps 139:11-16 Amos 9:2-3 Isa 57:15 Job 22:13-14 2 Chr 6:18

Jeremiah 23:25²⁵The Lord says, “I have heard what those prophets who are prophesying lies in my name are saying. They are saying, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:32 Jer 23:28 Jer 29:8 Joel 2:28 1 Cor 4:5 Jer 8:6 Num 12:6 Gen 37:5 Gen 37:9 Heb 4:13

Jeremiah 23:26²⁶Those prophets are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 4:1-2 Jer 14:14 2 Pet 2:13-16 2 Thess 2:9-11 2 Tim 4:3 Acts 13:10 Hos 8:5 Isa 30:10 Jer 13:27 Jer 17:9

Jeremiah 23:27²⁷How long will they go on plotting to make my people forget who I am through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 8:33-34 Judg 3:7 2 Kgs 21:3 Acts 13:8 Deut 13:1-5 Jer 29:8 Judg 10:6 2 Tim 2:17-18 2 Tim 3:6-8

Jeremiah 23:28²⁸Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:12-13 1 Tim 1:12 2 Cor 2:17 Luke 12:42 Matt 24:45 Prov 14:5 1 Cor 4:2

Jeremiah 23:29²⁹My message is like a fire that purges dross. It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces. I, the Lord, so affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 4:12 Jer 5:14 Luke 24:32 Jer 20:9 2 Cor 10:4-5 Rev 11:5 John 6:63 Acts 2:3 Acts 2:37 2 Cor 2:16

Jeremiah 23:30³⁰So I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who steal messages from one another that they claim are from me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 18:20 Ezek 13:8 Jer 14:14-15 Ezek 13:20 Ps 34:16 1 Pet 3:12 Ezek 15:7 Deut 29:20 Jer 44:11 Jer 44:29

Jeremiah 23:31³¹I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who are using their own tongues to declare, ‘The Lord declares.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:17 2 Chr 18:10-12 2 Chr 18:5 Isa 30:10 2 Chr 18:19-21 Mic 2:11

Jeremiah 23:32³²I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. I, the Lord, affirm it!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 13:7-18 Lam 2:14 Zeph 3:4 Jer 29:31 Jer 7:8 Matt 15:14 Zech 13:2-3 Deut 18:20 Isa 3:12 Jer 23:16

Jeremiah 23:33³³The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, when one of these people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, ‘What burdensome message do you have from the Lord?’ Tell them, ‘You are the burden, and I will cast you away. I, the Lord, affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mal 1:1 Deut 32:19-20 Hab 1:1 Hos 9:12 Isa 13:1 Jer 12:7 Nah 1:1 2 Chr 15:2 Deut 31:17-18 Isa 14:28

Jeremiah 23:34³⁴I will punish any prophet, priest, or other person who says “The Lord ’s message is burdensome.” I will punish both that person and his whole family.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 13:3 Lam 2:14

Jeremiah 23:35³⁵So I, Jeremiah, tell you, “Each of you people should say to his friend or his relative, ‘How did the Lord answer? Or what did the Lord say?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 8:11 Jer 31:34 Jer 33:3 Jer 42:4

Jeremiah 23:36³⁶You must no longer say that the Lord ’s message is burdensome. For what is ‘burdensome’ really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:16 Isa 3:8 Jer 10:10 2 Kgs 19:4 Ps 120:3 Ps 64:8 1 Sam 17:26 1 Sam 17:36 1 Thess 1:9 2 Pet 2:17-18

Jeremiah 23:37³⁷Each of you should merely ask the prophet, ‘What answer did the Lord give you? Or what did the Lord say?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 23:38³⁸But just suppose you continue to say, ‘The message of the Lord is burdensome.’ Here is what the Lord says will happen: ‘I sent word to you that you must not say, “The Lord ’s message is burdensome.” But you used the words, “The Lord ’s message is burdensome,” anyway.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 11:13-14

Jeremiah 23:39³⁹So I will carry you far off and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of my sight.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:33 Ezek 8:18 2 Thess 1:9 Deut 32:39 Ezek 34:11 Ezek 34:20 Ezek 5:8 Ezek 6:3 Ezek 9:6 Gen 6:17