Jr 23 (King James)

   ¹ Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. ² Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. ³ And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. ⁴ And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. ⁵ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. ⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. ⁷ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; ⁸ But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
   ⁹ Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. ¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. ¹¹ For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. ¹² Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. ¹³ And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. ¹⁴ I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. ¹⁷ They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. ¹⁸ For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? ¹⁹ Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. ²⁰ The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. ²¹ I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. ²² But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. ²³ Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? ²⁴ Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. ²⁵ I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. ²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; ²⁷ Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. ²⁸ The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. ²⁹ Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? ³⁰ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. ³² Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
   ³³ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. ³⁴ And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. ³⁵ Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? ³⁶ And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. ³⁷ Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? ³⁸ But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; ³⁹ Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: ⁴⁰ And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

Jr 23 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [Væ pastoribus qui disperdunt et dilacerant
gregem pascuæ meæ ! dicit Dominus.
   ² Ideo hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël
ad pastores qui pascunt populum meum :
Vos dispersistis gregem meum,
et ejecistis eos, et non visitastis eos :
ecce ego visitabo super vos
malitiam studiorum vestrorum, ait Dominus.
   ³ Et ego congregabo reliquias gregis mei
de omnibus terris ad quas ejecero eos illuc :
et convertam eos ad rura sua,
et crescent et multiplicabuntur.
   ⁴ Et suscitabo super eos pastores, et pascent eos :
non formidabunt ultra, et non pavebunt,
et nullus quæretur ex numero, dicit Dominus.]
   ⁵ [Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus,
et suscitabo David germen justum :
et regnabit rex, et sapiens erit,
et faciet judicium et justitiam in terra.
   ⁶ In diebus illis salvabitur Juda,
et Israël habitabit confidenter :
et hoc est nomen quod vocabunt eum :
Dominus justus noster.
   ⁷ Propter hoc ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus,
et non dicent ultra : Vivit Dominus,
qui eduxit filios Israël de terra Ægypti,
   ⁸ sed : Vivit Dominus,
qui eduxit et adduxit semen domus Israël de terra aquilonis,
et de cunctis terris ad quas ejeceram eos illuc,
et habitabunt in terra sua.]
   ⁹ Ad prophetas : [Contritum est cor meum in medio mei ;
contremuerunt omnia ossa mea :
factus sum quasi vir ebrius,
et quasi homo madidus a vino,
a facie Domini,
et a facie verborum sanctorum ejus.
   ¹⁰ Quia adulteris repleta est terra,
quia a facie maledictionis luxit terra,
arefacta sunt arva deserti :
factus est cursus eorum malus,
et fortitudo eorum dissimilis.
   ¹¹ Propheta namque et sacerdos polluti sunt,
et in domo mea inveni malum eorum, ait Dominus.
   ¹² Idcirco via eorum erit quasi lubricum in tenebris :
impellentur enim, et corruent in ea :
afferam enim super eos mala,
annum visitationis eorum, ait Dominus.
   ¹³ Et in prophetis Samariæ vidi fatuitatem :
prophetabant in Baal,
et decipiebant populum meum Israël.
   ¹⁴ Et in prophetis Jerusalem vidi similitudinem adulterantium,
et iter mendacii :
et confortaverunt manus pessimorum,
ut non converteretur unusquisque a malitia sua :
facti sunt mihi omnes ut Sodoma,
et habitatores ejus quasi Gomorrha.
   ¹⁵ Propterea hæc dicit Dominus exercituum ad prophetas :
Ecce ego cibabo eos absinthio,
et potabo eos felle :
a prophetis enim Jerusalem egressa est pollutio
super omnem terram.
   ¹⁶ Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum :
Nolite audire verba prophetarum
qui prophetant vobis, et decipiunt vos :
visionem cordis sui loquuntur,
non de ore Domini.
   ¹⁷ Dicunt his qui blasphemant me :
Locutus est Dominus : Pax erit vobis :
et omni qui ambulat in pravitate cordis sui dixerunt :
Non veniet super vos malum.
   ¹⁸ Quis enim affuit in consilio Domini,
et vidit, et audivit sermonem ejus ?
quis consideravit verbum illius, et audivit ?
   ¹⁹ Ecce turbo Dominicæ indignationis egredietur,
et tempestas erumpens super caput impiorum veniet.
   ²⁰ Non revertetur furor Domini,
usque dum faciat et usque dum compleat cogitationem cordis sui :
in novissimis diebus intelligetis consilium ejus.
   ²¹ Non mittebam prophetas,
et ipsi currebant :
non loquebar ad eos,
et ipsi prophetabant.
   ²² Si stetissent in consilio meo,
et nota fecissent verba mea populo meo,
avertissem utique eos a via sua mala,
et a cogitationibus suis pessimis.
   ²³ Putasne Deus e vicino ego sum, dicit Dominus,
et non Deus de longe ?
   ²⁴ Si occultabitur vir in absconditis,
et ego non videbo eum ? dicit Dominus.
Numquid non cælum et terram ego impleo ? dicit Dominus.
   ²⁵ Audivi quæ dixerunt prophetæ
prophetantes in nomine meo mendacium,
atque dicentes : Somniavi, somniavi.
   ²⁶ Usquequo istud est in corde prophetarum vaticinantium mendacium,
et prophetantium seductiones cordis sui ?
   ²⁷ Qui volunt facere ut obliviscatur populus meus nominis mei,
propter somnia eorum quæ narrat unusquisque ad proximum suum,
sicut obliti sunt patres eorum nominis mei propter Baal ?
   ²⁸ Propheta qui habet somnium,
narret somnium :
et qui habet sermonem meum,
loquatur sermonem meum vere.
Quid paleis ad triticum ? dicit Dominus.
   ²⁹ Numquid non verba mea sunt quasi ignis, dicit Dominus,
et quasi malleus conterens petram ?
   ³⁰ Propterea ecce ego ad prophetas, ait Dominus,
qui furantur verba mea unusquisque a proximo suo.
   ³¹ Ecce ego ad prophetas, ait Dominus,
qui assumunt linguas suas, et aiunt : Dicit Dominus.
   ³² Ecce ego ad prophetas somniantes mendacium, ait Dominus,
qui narraverunt ea, et seduxerunt populum meum
in mendacio suo et in miraculis suis,
cum ego non misissem eos, nec mandassem eis :
qui nihil profuerunt populo huic, dicit Dominus.
   ³³ Si igitur interrogaverit te populus iste,
vel propheta, aut sacerdos, dicens :
Quod est onus Domini ?
dices ad eos : Vos estis onus :
projiciam quippe vos, dicit Dominus.
   ³⁴ Et propheta, et sacerdos, et populus
qui dicit : Onus Domini :
visitabo super virum illum et super domum ejus.
   ³⁵ Hæc dicetis unusquisque ad proximum,
et ad fratrem suum :
Quid respondit Dominus ?
et quid locutus est Dominus ?
   ³⁶ Et onus Domini ultra non memorabitur :
quia onus erit unicuique sermo suus,
et pervertistis verba Dei viventis,
Domini exercituum, Dei nostri.
   ³⁷ Hæc dices ad prophetam :
Quid respondit tibi Dominus ?
et quid locutus est Dominus ?
   ³⁸ Si autem onus Domini dixeritis,
propter hoc hæc dicit Dominus :
Quia dixistis sermonem istum : Onus Domini,
et misi ad vos dicens : Nolite dicere : Onus Domini :
   ³⁹ propterea ecce ego tollam vos portans,
et derelinquam vos,
et civitatem quam dedi vobis et patribus vestris,
a facie mea :
   ⁴⁰ et dabo vos in opprobrium sempiternum,
et in ignominiam æternam,
quæ numquam oblivione delebitur.]