Jeremiah 23

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

Woe to the shepherds, Who lose and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith Jehovah.

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

For concerning the shepherds, the feeders of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, And have not taken care of them. Behold, I am about to requite you For the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.

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

But I will gather the remnant of my flock From all the countries whither I have driven them, And I will bring them back to their folds, And they shall be fruitful and increase.

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

And I will raise up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; They shall fear no more, nor be dismayed; Nor shall they be lost, saith Jehovah.

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, saith Jehovah, When I will raise up from David a righteous Branch, And a king shall reign and prosper, And shall maintain justice and equity 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 securely; And this is the name which shall be given him, Jehovah-is-our-salvation.

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, behold, the days shall come, saith Jehovah, When they shall no more say, “As Jehovah liveth Who brought up the children of Israel from 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 Jehovah liveth Who brought up and led the race of Israel from the north country, And from all the countries whither I had driven them!” And 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 is broken within me; All my bones tremble. I am become like a drunken man, Like a man whom wine hath overcome, Because of Jehovah, 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 adulteries; Because of a curse doth the land mourn; The pastures of the waste are dried up; For they run to do evil, And their might is without right.

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

Yea, both prophet and priest are profane; Even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

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 shall their way become as slippery places in the dark; They shall be driven on and fall therein; For I will bring evil upon them In the time of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

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

In the prophets of Samaria have I seen folly; They prophesy in the name of Baal, and cause 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 have I seen a horrible thing; They commit adultery, and walk in falsehood; They strengthen the hands of evil-doers, So that none doth turn from his iniquity. They have all become to me as Sodom, And her 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 saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And give them the water of hemlock to drink; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Hath profaneness 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 saith Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets; They lead you to vanity; They utter the vision of their own heart, And not from the mouth of Jehovah.

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

To them that despise me they say continually, “Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace”; And to every one that walketh after the perverseness of his heart, “No evil shall come upon 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 of them hath stood in the council of Jehovah, And hath seen and heard his word? Who hath listened to his word and heard it?

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

Behold a whirlwind from Jehovah goeth forth in fury, Even a rushing whirlwind; Upon the head of the wicked shall it rush.

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 fierce anger of Jehovah shall not turn back, Until he shall have executed, until he shall have accomplished the purpose of his heart. In the latter days ye shall understand it fully.

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 spake not 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

For if they had stood in my council, Then would they have caused my people to hear my words, And would have turned them from their evil way. And from the wickedness of their doings.

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

Am I a God near at hand, saith Jehovah, 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 one hide himself in secret places, So that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah; Do I nor fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.

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 say, Who prophesy falsehood 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 falsehood, 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 the dreams which they relate one to another, As their fathers forgot my name through 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 hath a dream, let him tell a dream; And he that hath my word, let him speak my word truly! What is the chaff to the wheat? saith Jehovah.

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

Is not my word like fire, saith Jehovah, And like a hammer, that breaketh 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, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, That steal my words one from another.

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

Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, That take their tongues and utter oracles.

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

Behold, I am against the prophets of false dreams, saith Jehovah, Who tell them, and cause my people to err By their lies and their arrogance. I have not sent them, nor commanded them, And they shall not profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.

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

And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest Shall ask thee, saying, “What is the burden from Jehovah?” Then say thou to them, “What is the burden?” That I will cast you away, saith Jehovah.

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

And the prophet, the priest, and the people, Who shall say, “The burden of Jehovah,” I will 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

Thus shall ye speak, one to another: “What hath Jehovah answered?” And, “What hath Jehovah 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

And of a burden of Jehovah shall ye speak no more; Else shall every man's word be his burden, Because ye pervert the words of the living God, Of Jehovah of hosts, our God.

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

Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: “What hath Jehovah answered thee?” And, “What hath Jehovah 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

If ye shall say, “The burden of Jehovah,” Then thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say, “The burden of Jehovah,” Although I sent to you and said, Ye shall not say, “The burden of Jehovah,”

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, behold, I will utterly forget you, And I will cast you, and the city which I gave to your fathers, out of my presence;

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

And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, And a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten.