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." says 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 thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: "You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; look, I will visit on you the evil of your doings," says 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

"I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall 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 set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking," says 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

"Look, the days come," says the LORD, "that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute 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 shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall 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

Therefore look, the days come," says the LORD, "that they shall no more say, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel 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

but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up and who led the descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where he had driven them.' They shall dwell 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

Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and 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; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. "Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

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 profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness," says the LORD.

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 way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation," says the LORD.

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

"I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

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

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as 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 thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: 'Look, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all 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

Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of 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 say continually to those who despise me, "The LORD has said, 'You shall have peace'"; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, "No evil shall come on 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

For who has stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has marked my word, and heard it?

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

Look, the storm of the LORD, his wrath, has gone forth. Yes, a whirling storm. It shall burst on the head 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 shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.

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 sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I did not speak to them, yet they 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, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

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

Am I a God at hand,' says the LORD, 'and not a God afar off?

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 any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him?' says the LORD. 'Do I not fill heaven and earth?' says 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 what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed."

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

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

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

who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for 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

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?' says the LORD.

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

'Isn't my word like fire?' says the LORD; 'and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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

Therefore look, I am against the prophets,' says the LORD, 'who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

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

Look, I am against the prophets,' says the LORD, 'who use their tongues, and say, "He says."

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

Look, I am against the prophets who prophesy lying dreams,' says the LORD, 'and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I did not send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all,' says 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

'When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, "What is the burden of the LORD?" Then you shall tell them, "You are the burden, and I will cast you off," says 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, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, "The burden of the LORD," I will even punish that man and his house.

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

You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, "What has the LORD answered?" and, "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

You shall mention the burden of the LORD no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of 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

You shall 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 say, "The burden of the LORD"; therefore thus says the LORD: Because you say this word, "The burden of the LORD," and I have sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, 'The burden of the LORD'";

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, look, I will surely lift you up and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

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

and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"