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As for the prophets: My ^(C1)heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, And like a man overcome by wine, Because of the LORD And because of His holy words.

For the land is full of ^(C1)adulterers; For the land ^(C2)mourns because of the curse. The ^(C3)pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil And their might is not right.

"For ^(C1)both prophet and priest are defiled; Even in My house I have found their wickedness," declares the LORD.

"Therefore their way will be like ^(C1)slippery paths to them, They will be driven away into the ^(C2)gloom and fall down in it; For I will bring ^(C3)disaster upon them, The year of their punishment," declares the LORD.

"Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an ^(C1)offensive thing: They ^(C2)prophesied by Baal and ^(C3)led My people Israel astray.

-"Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a ^(C1)horrible thing: The committing of ^(C2)adultery and walking in deceit; And they strengthen the hands of ^(C3)evildoers, So that no one has turned back from his wickedness. All of them have become to Me like ^(C4)Sodom, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

"Therefore this is what the LORD of armies says concerning the prophets: 'Behold, I am going to ^(C1)feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Ungodliness has spread into all the land.'"

This is what the LORD of armies says: "^(C1)Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are ^(C2)leading you into futility; They tell a ^(C3)vision of their own ^(F1)imagination, Not ^(C4)from the mouth of the LORD.

-"They keep saying to those who ^(C1)despise Me, 'The LORD has said, "^(C2)You will have peace"'; And as for everyone who walks in the ^(C3)stubbornness of his own heart, They say, '^(C4)Disaster will not come on you.'

-"But ^(C1)who has stood in the council of the LORD, That he should see and hear His word? Who has paid ^(C2)attention to ^(F1)His word and listened?

-"Behold, the ^(C1)storm of the LORD has gone forth in wrath, Even a whirling tempest; It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

-"The ^(C1)anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has ^(C2)performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; ^(C3)In the last days you will clearly understand it.

-"^(C1)I did not send these prophets, But they ran. I did not speak to them, But they prophesied.

-"But if they had ^(C1)stood in My council, Then they would have ^(C2)announced My words to My people, And would have turned them back from their evil way And from the evil of their deeds.

"Am I a God who is ^(C1)near," declares the LORD, "And not a God far off?

-"Can a person ^(C1)hide himself in hiding places So that I do not see him?" declares the LORD. "^(C2)Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.