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Rh Concerning the prophets.


 * My heart within me is broken,
 * All my bones shake;
 * I am like a drunken man,
 * And like a man whom wine hath overcome;
 * Because of the ,
 * And because of His holy words.
 * For the land is full of adulterers;
 * For because of swearing the land mourneth,
 * The pastures of the wilderness are dried up;
 * And their course is evil,
 * And their force is not right.
 * For both prophet and priest are ungodly;
 * Yea, in My house have I found their wickedness,
 * Saith the.
 * Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness,
 * They shall be thrust, and fall therein;
 * For I will bring evil upon them,
 * Even the year of their visitation,
 * Saith the.


 * And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria:
 * They prophesied by Baal,
 * And caused My people Israel to err.
 * But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:
 * They commit adultery, and walk in lies,
 * And they strengthen the hands of evil-doers,
 * That none doth return from his wickedness;
 * They are all of them become unto Me as Sodom,
 * And the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Therefore thus saith the of hosts concerning the prophets:


 * Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
 * And make them drink the water of gall;
 * For from the prophets of Jerusalem
 * Is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.


 * Thus saith the of hosts:
 * Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you,
 * They lead you unto vanity;
 * They speak a vision of their own heart,
 * And not out of the mouth of the.
 * They say continually unto them that despise Me:
 * 'The hath said: Ye shall have peace';
 * And unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say:
 * 'No evil shall come upon you';
 * For who hath stood in the council of the ,
 * That he should perceive and hear His word?
 * Who hath attended to His word, and heard it?


 * Behold, a storm of the is gone forth in fury,
 * Yea, a whirling storm;
 * It shall whirl upon the head of the wicked.
 * The anger of the shall not return,
 * Until He have executed, and till He have performed the purposes of His heart;
 * In the end of days ye shall consider it perfectly.
 * I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran;
 * I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.