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I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts,Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
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They saystill unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
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The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latterdays ye shall consider it perfectly.
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But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evilway, and from the evil of their doings.
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Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my wordfaithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?saith the LORD.
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Behold, I am against them that prophesyfalsedreams,saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
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And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
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And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man'sword shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the livingGod, of the LORD of hosts our God.
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But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
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Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterlyforget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: