Jeremiah 23

1 woe! to pasture to perish and to scatter [obj] flock pasturing my utterance LORD

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.

2 to/for so thus to say LORD God Israel upon [the] to pasture [the] to pasture [obj] people my you(m. p.) to scatter [obj] flock my and to banish them and not to reckon: visit [obj] them look! I to reckon: visit upon you [obj] evil deed your utterance LORD

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.

3 and I to gather [obj] remnant flock my from all [the] land: country/planet which to banish [obj] them there and to return: return [obj] them upon pasture their and be fruitful and to multiply

Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.

4 and to arise: establish upon them to pasture and to pasture them and not to fear still and not to to be dismayed and not to reckon: missing utterance LORD

I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.

5 behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to arise: establish to/for David branch righteous and to reign king and be prudent and to make: do justice and righteousness in/on/with land: country/planet

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

6 in/on/with day his to save Judah and Israel to dwell to/for security and this name his which to call: call to him LORD Righteousness our

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

7 to/for so behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and not to say still alive LORD which to ascend: establish [obj] son: descendant/people Israel from land: country/planet Egypt

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’

8 that if: except if: except alive LORD which to ascend: establish and which to come (in): bring [obj] seed: children house: household Israel from land: country/planet north [to] and from all [the] land: country/planet which to banish them there and to dwell upon land: soil their

Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”

9 to/for prophet to break heart my in/on/with entrails: among my be weak all bone my to be like/as man drunken and like/as great man to pass him wine from face: because LORD and from face: because word holiness his

As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.

10 for to commit adultery to fill [the] land: country/planet for from face: because oath to mourn [the] land: country/planet to wither habitation wilderness and to be running their bad: evil and might their not right

For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.

11 for also prophet also priest to pollute also in/on/with house: temple my to find distress: evil their utterance LORD

“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,”

12 to/for so to be way: journey their to/for them like/as smoothness in/on/with darkness to thrust and to fall: fall in/on/with her for to come (in): bring upon them distress: harm year punishment their utterance LORD

“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,”

13 and in/on/with prophet Samaria to see: see folly to prophesy in/on/with Baal and to go astray [obj] people my [obj] Israel

“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.

14 and in/on/with prophet Jerusalem to see: see horror to commit adultery and to go: walk in/on/with deception and to strengthen: strengthen hand be evil to/for lest to return: turn back man: anyone from distress: evil his to be to/for me all their like/as Sodom and to dwell her like/as Gomorrah

And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”

15 to/for so thus to say LORD Hosts upon [the] prophet look! I to eat [obj] them wormwood and to water: drink them water poison for from with prophet Jerusalem to come out: come profaneness to/for all [the] land: country/planet

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

16 thus to say LORD Hosts not to hear: hear upon word [the] prophet [the] to prophesy to/for you to become vain they(masc.) [obj] you vision heart their to speak: speak not from lip LORD

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

17 to say to say to/for to spurn me to speak: speak LORD peace: well-being to be to/for you and all to go: follow in/on/with stubbornness heart his to say not to come (in): come upon you distress: harm

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’

18 for who? to stand: stand in/on/with counsel LORD and to see: see and to hear: hear [obj] word his who? to listen (word his *Q(K)*) and to hear: hear

But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?

19 behold tempest LORD rage to come out: come and tempest to twist: dance upon head wicked to twist: dance

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

20 not to return: turn back face: anger LORD till to make: do he and till to arise: establish he plot heart his in/on/with end [the] day to understand in/on/with her understanding

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.

21 not to send: depart [obj] [the] prophet and they(masc.) to run: run not to speak: speak to(wards) them and they(masc.) to prophesy

I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.

22 and if to stand: stand in/on/with counsel my and to hear: proclaim word my [obj] people my and to return: turn back them from way: conduct their [the] bad: evil and from evil deed their

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

23 God from near I utterance LORD and not God from distant

“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”

24 if: surely yes to hide man: anyone in/on/with hiding and I not to see: see him utterance LORD not [obj] [the] heaven and [obj] [the] land: country/planet I to fill utterance LORD

“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

25 to hear: hear [obj] which to say [the] prophet [the] to prophesy in/on/with name my deception to/for to say to dream to dream

“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

26 till how there in/on/with heart [the] prophet to prophesy [the] deception and prophet deceitfulness heart their

How long will this continue in the hearts of these prophets who prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the delusion of their own minds?

27 [the] to devise: think to/for to forget [obj] people my name my in/on/with dream their which to recount man: anyone to/for neighbor his like/as as which to forget father their [obj] name my in/on/with Baal

They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.

28 [the] prophet which with him dream to recount dream and which word my with him to speak: speak word my truth: faithful what? to/for straw with [the] grain utterance LORD

Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

29 not thus word my like/as fire utterance LORD and like/as hammer to shatter crag

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

30 to/for so look! I upon [the] prophet utterance LORD to steal word my man: anyone from with neighbor his

“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”

31 look! I upon [the] prophet utterance LORD [the] to take: take tongue their and to prophesy utterance

“Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ‘The LORD declares it.’”

32 look! I upon to prophesy dream deception utterance LORD and to recount them and to go astray [obj] people my in/on/with deception their and in/on/with recklessness their and I not to send: depart them and not to command them and to gain not to gain to/for people [the] this utterance LORD

“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.

33 and for to ask you [the] people [the] this or [the] prophet or priest to/for to say what? oracle LORD and to say to(wards) them [obj] what? oracle and to leave [obj] you utterance LORD

“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’

34 and [the] prophet and [the] priest and [the] people which to say oracle LORD and to reckon: punish upon [the] man [the] he/she/it and upon house: household his

As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.

35 thus to say man: anyone upon neighbor his and man: anyone to(wards) brother: male-sibling his what? to answer LORD and what? to speak: speak LORD

This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’

36 and oracle LORD not to remember still for [the] oracle to be to/for man word his and to overturn [obj] word God alive LORD Hosts God our

But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.

37 thus to say to(wards) [the] prophet what? to answer you LORD and what? to speak: speak LORD

Thus you are to say to the prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’

38 and if oracle LORD to say to/for so thus to say LORD because to say you [obj] [the] word [the] this oracle LORD and to send: depart to(wards) you to/for to say not to say oracle LORD

But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,

39 to/for so look! I and to forget [obj] you to lift: raise and to leave [obj] you and [obj] [the] city which to give: give to/for you and to/for father your from upon face my

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

40 and to give: give upon you reproach forever: enduring and shame forever: enduring which not to forget

And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”