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Prophecy of Jeremias 975

ers, and the way of lying in the prophets of and earth, saith the Lord?
Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that
the wicked, that no man should return from prophesy lies in my name, and say: I have
his evil doings, they are all become unto me as dreamed, I have dreamed.
Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomor- 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the
rha. prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy
15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the delusions of their own heart?
to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with 27 Who seek to make my people forget my
wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: name through their dreams, which they tell every
for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my
is gone forth into all the land. name for Baal.
16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him
to the words of the prophets that prophesy to tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him
you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff
own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?
17 They say to them that blaspheme me: The 29 Are not my words as a fire, saith the
Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock
every one that walketh in the perverseness of his in pieces?
own heart, they have said: No evil shall come 30 Therefore behold I am against the
upon you. prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words
18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the every one from his neighbour.
Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who 31 Behold I am against the prophets, saith the
hath considered his word and heard it? Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord
19 Behold the whirlwind of the Lord’s indig- saith it.
nation shall come forth, and a tempest shall 32 Behold I am against the prophets that have
break out and come upon the head of the wicked. lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and
20 The wrath of the Lord shall not return till cause my people to err by their lying, and by
he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought their wonders: when I sent them not, nor com-
of his heart: in the latter days you shall under- manded them, who have not profited this people
stand his counsel. at all, saith the Lord.
21 I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I 33 If therefore this people, or the prophet, or
have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the
22 If they had stood in my counsel, and had burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them:
made my words known to my people, I should You are the burden: for I will cast you away,
have turned them from their evil way, and from saith the Lord.
their wicked doings. 34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and
23 Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the the people that shall say: The burden of the
Lord, and not a God afar off? Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his
24 Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I house.
not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven 35 Thus shall you say every one to his neigh-