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Thus says Yahweh,‘Write this man down childless,A man who will not succeed in his days;For no man of his seed will succeedSitting on the throne of DavidOr ruling again in Judah.'"

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who are shepherding My people: "You have scattered My flock and banished them and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds," declares Yahweh.

"Behold, the days are coming," declares Yahweh,"When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch;And He will reign as king and prosperAnd do justice and righteousness in the land.

As for the prophets:My heart is broken within me;All my bones tremble;I have become like a drunken man,Even like a man overcome with wine,Because of YahwehAnd because of His holy words.

For the land is full of adulterers;For the land mourns because of the curse.The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.Their course also is evil,And their might is not right.

"For both prophet and priest are polluted;Even in My house I have found their evil," declares Yahweh.

"Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them;They will be driven away into the thick darkness and fall down in it;For I will bring their evil upon them,The year of their punishment," declares Yahweh.

Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets,‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwoodAnd make them drink poisoned water,For from the prophets of JerusalemPollution has gone forth into all the land.'"

They keep saying to those who spurn Me,‘Yahweh has said, "You will have peace"';And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,They say, ‘Evil will not come upon you.'

Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The oracle of Yahweh,' I will bring punishment upon that man and his household.

For you will no longer remember the oracle of Yahweh because every man's own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.

For if you all say, ‘The oracle of Yahweh!' surely thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you said this word, "The oracle of Yahweh!" I have also sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, ‘The oracle of Yahweh!'"'

For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will return them to this land; and I will build them up and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not uproot them.

I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am Yahweh; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.

I will give them over to be a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a byword and a curse in all places where I will banish them.

‘Then it will be when seventy years are fulfilled, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, even the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

—For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands—'"

For thus Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me, "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

For behold, I am beginning to bring evil against this city which is called by My name. But shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," declares Yahweh of hosts.'

A rumbling has come to the end of the earthBecause Yahweh has a contention against the nations.He is entering into judgment with all flesh;As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,' declares Yahweh."