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Jeremiah

The Lord Rebukes False Oracles

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Chapter 23
33 And when this people or the prophet or priest asks you, saying, "What is the burden of the LORD?" then you shall say to them, "What burden! I will abandon you," utterance of the LORD. 34 And the prophet and the priest and the people who say, "The burden of the LORD," I will visit upon that man and upon his house. 35 In this way you shall say, man to his fellow and man to his brother, “What has the LORD answered, and what has the LORD spoken?” 36 And you shall not mention "the burden of the LORD" anymore, for the burden will be to a man his word, and you have overturned the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God. 37 In this way you shall say to the prophet, "What has the LORD answered you? And what word the LORD?" 38 And if you say, "burden of the LORD," therefore thus says the LORD: Because you have said this word, "burden of the LORD," and I sent to you, saying, "You shall not say 'burden of the LORD.'" 39 Therefore behold, I will forget you, I will bear you away, and I will abandon you and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers from before my face. 40 And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and everlasting shame, which you will not forget.