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Instead, they will say, “As the Lord lives who brought up the descendants of the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he[a] has banished them so that they can live in their own land.”

Oracles against the prophets

As for the prophets:
My heart inside me is broken;
    my body aches.[b]
I stagger like a drunk
    who has had too much wine to drink,
        because of the Lord
        and because of God’s holy words.
10 Because the country teems
    with adulterers,
    because of them,[c]
        yes, because their might isn’t right
        and their way is evil,
        the land dries up,
        and the grazing areas in the wilderness wither.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:8 Or I
  2. Jeremiah 23:9 Heb uncertain; or my bones shake
  3. Jeremiah 23:10 LXX; MT a curse
  4. Jeremiah 23:10 Heb uncertain

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