Therefore thus says the Lord against those who shepherd my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away and have not visited them. Behold, I am bringing punishment upon you according to your evil practices.
And I myself will gather in the remnant of my people from every land where I drove them, and I will set them back in their pasture, and they shall increase and be multiplied.
Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for Dauid a righteous Dawn, and he shall reign as king and shall understand, and shall do judgement and righteousness on the earth.
Therefore, behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no longer say: As the Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt,
but: As the Lord lives, who gathered all the seed of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where he drove them, and restored them to their own land.
Concerning the prophets: my heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble; I have become like a broken man and like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of the majesty of his glory.
For because of these the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up; and their course has become evil, and their strength is not as it should be.
Therefore let their way become for them a slippery place in the gloom, and they shall be tripped up and shall fall on it; for I will bring evils upon them in the year of their visitation, declares the Lord.
And among the prophets of Ierousalem I have seen horrible things: committing adultery and walking in falsehoods and upholding the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his evil way. They have all become to me like Sodoma, and her inhabitants like Gomorra.
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them anguish and give them bitter water to drink, for from the prophets of Ierousalem defilement has gone out to all the land.
Thus says the Lord Almighty: Do not listen to the words of the prophets, for they make a vision vain for themselves; they speak from their own heart and not from the mouth of the Lord.
They say to those who reject the word of the Lord: Peace shall be yours; and to everyone who walks after his own wishes, to everyone who walks in the error of his own heart, they have said: Evils shall not come upon you.
And the fury of the Lord shall not turn back until he has done it and until he has established it from the undertaking of his heart; at the end of days they shall understand these things.
those who scheme to make my law forgotten through their dreams, which each recounted to his neighbour, just as their fathers forgot my name through Baal.
Let the prophet who has a dream recount his dream, and the one to whom my word has come, let him recount my word in truth. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are my words, says the Lord.
Behold, I am against the prophets who prophesy false dreams and recounted them and led my people astray by their lies and by their deceits. And I did not send them and did not command them, and they shall be of no benefit at all to this people.
And if this people, or a priest, or a prophet asks you, saying: What is the burden of the Lord?—then you shall say to them: You are the burden, and I will dash you down, says the Lord.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you said this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of the Lord—