Yeremya 23

¹Ey otlağımın koyunlarını dağıtan ve yok eden çobanlar!

²Bu yüzden halkımı güden çobanlara karşı İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab şöyle diyor: Sizler koyunlarımı dağıttınız, onları sürüp çıkardınız ve onlarla ilgilenmediniz; işte ben de kötü eylemleriniz yüzünden sizi cezalandıracağım, diyor Rab.

³Ve ben halkımın geri kalanını, onları sürdüğüm bütün ülkelerden toplayacağım, onları kendi otlaklarına geri yerleştireceğim; verimli kılınacaklar ve çoğaltılacaklar.

⁴Onların başına, kendilerini güdecek çobanlar dikeceğim; artık korkmayacaklar, dehşete düşmeyecekler, diyor Rab.

⁵İşte günler geliyor, diyor Rab, Davut için adil bir şafak söktüreceğim; o, kral olarak egemenlik sürecek, bilgelikle kavrayacak, yeryüzünde adaleti ve doğruluğu sağlayacak.

⁶Onun günlerinde Yahuda kurtulacak, İsrail güven içinde yaşayacak; Rab'bin onu çağıracağı ad şu olacak: Yosedek.

⁹Peygamberler hakkında: İçimde yüreğim parçalandı, bütün kemiklerim sarsıldı; Rab'bin huzurunda ve O'nun görkemli güzelliğinin önünde, kırılmış bir adam gibi, şarabın etkisindeki bir insan gibi oldum.

¹⁰Çünkü bunlar yüzünden ülke yas tutuyor, çölün otlakları kurudu; onların koştuğu yol kötü, güçleri ise adaletsizdir.

¹¹Çünkü hem kâhin hem peygamber kirlendi; tapınağımda bile onların kötülüklerini gördüm, diyor Rab.

¹²Bu yüzden yolları karanlıkta kaygan bir zemin olacak; ayakları kaydırılacak ve orada düşecekler. Çünkü denetlenme yıllarında üzerlerine felaket getireceğim, diyor Rab.

¹³Samiriye peygamberlerinde de yasa dışılıklar gördüm; Baal adına peygamberlik ettiler ve halkım İsrail'i saptırdılar.

¹⁴Yeruşalim peygamberlerinde ise tüyler ürpertici şeyler gördüm: Zina ediyorlar, yalan yolda yürüyorlar ve kötülük yapanların ellerini güçlendiriyorlar ki, hiç kimse kendi kötü yolundan dönmesin; hepsi benim için Sodom gibi oldu, orada yaşayanlar da Gomora gibidir.

¹⁵Bu yüzden Rab şöyle diyor: İşte onlara acı yedireceğim ve onlara zehirli su içireceğim; çünkü Yeruşalim peygamberlerinden bütün ülkeye kirlilik yayıldı.

¹⁶Her Şeye Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: Size peygamberlik eden peygamberlerin sözlerini dinlemeyin; kendilerini boşluğa sürüklüyorlar, Rab'bin ağzından çıkanı değil, kendi yüreklerinin görümünü bildiriyorlar.

¹⁷Rab'bin sözünü reddedenlere, "Size esenlik olacak" diyorlar; kendi yüreğinin sapkınlığı ardınca giden her birine ise, "Başınıza felaket gelmeyecek" diyorlar.

¹⁸Oysa kim Rab'bin varoluşsal zemininde durdu da O'nun sözünü gördü? Kim kulak verip işitti?

¹⁹İşte Rab'den bir sarsıntı ve öfke fırtınası patlak veriyor; dönerek kötülerin başı üzerine inecek.

²⁰Rab'bin öfkesi, yüreğinin tasarılarını gerçekleştirene ve yerine getirene dek geri dönmeyecektir; son günlerde bunu açıkça anlayacaksınız.

²¹Ben bu peygamberleri göndermedim, ama kendileri koştular; onlarla konuşmadım, ama peygamberlik ettiler.

²²Eğer benim tözümde dursaydılar ve sözlerimi işitseydiler, halkımı kötü eylemlerinden döndürürlerdi.

²³Ben yalnızca yakındaki bir Tanrı mıyım, diyor Rab, uzaktaki bir Tanrı değil miyim?

²⁴Bir kimse gizli sığınaklarda saklanır da ben onu görmez miyim? diyor Rab. Gökleri ve yeri dolduran ben değil miyim? diyor Rab.

²⁵Benim adımla yalan yere peygamberlik edip, "Rüya gördüm, rüya!" diyen peygamberlerin ne dediklerini işittim.

²⁶Yalan peygamberlik eden ve yüreklerinin arzularını yayan bu peygamberlerin yüreğinde bu durum ne zamana dek sürecek?

²⁷Atalarının Baal yüzünden adımı unuttuğu gibi, birbirlerine anlattıkları rüyalarla halkıma yasamı unutturmayı tasarlıyorlar.

²⁸Rüyası olan peygamber rüyasını anlatsın; kendisinde sözüm olan ise sözümü gerçeklikle bildirsin. Samanın buğdayla ne ilgisi var? diyor Rab.

²⁹Benim sözüm alev alev yanan ateş gibi değil mi? diyor Rab, ve kayayı parçalayan bir balta gibi değil mi?

³⁰Bu yüzden, sözlerimi birbirinden çalan peygamberlere karşıyım, diyor Rab Tanrı.

³¹Kendi dillerinden peygamberlik uydurup kendi uykularıyla uyuklayan peygamberlere karşıyım, diyor Rab.

³²İşte, yalan rüyalar görüp bunları anlatan, yalanlarıyla ve sapkınlıklarıyla halkımı saptıran peygamberlere karşıyım, diyor Rab. Ben onları göndermedim, onlara buyruk vermedim; bu halka hiçbir yararları dokunmaz, diyor Rab.

³³Bu halktan biri, bir kâhin ya da bir peygamber sana, "Rab'bin yükü nedir?" diye sorarsa, onlara şöyle diyeceksin: "Yük sizsiniz ve ben sizi yere çarpacağım, diyor Rab."

³⁴"Rab'bin yükü" diyen peygambere, kâhine ya da halktan birine gelince, o adamı ve ev halkını cezalandıracağım.

³⁵Her biriniz yakınınızdakine ve kardeşinize şöyle diyeceksiniz: "Rab ne yanıt verdi?" ve "Rab ne söyledi?"

³⁶Ama artık "Rab'bin yükü" sözünü ağzınıza almayacaksınız; çünkü her insanın kendi sözü kendisine yük olacaktır.

³⁷Ve neden konuştu Rab Tanrımız?

³⁸Bu yüzden Tanrımız Rab şöyle diyor: Size, "Rab'bin yükü demeyin" diye haber gönderdiğim halde, siz bu sözü söyleyip "Rab'bin yükü" dediniz.

³⁹Bu yüzden işte, sizi tamamen alıp yere çarpacağım; hem sizi hem de size ve atalarınıza verdiğim bu kenti huzurumdan uzaklaştıracağım.

⁴⁰Üzerinize hiç unutulmayacak sonsuz bir utanç ve sonsuz bir onursuzluk getireceğim.

⁷Bu yüzden işte, günler geliyor, diyor Rab, artık, "İsrail evini Mısır ülkesinden çıkaran diri Rab'bin adıyla" demeyecekler.

⁸Bunun yerine, "İsrail'in tüm tohumunu kuzey ülkesinden ve onları sürdüğü bütün ülkelerden toplayıp getiren ve kendi topraklarında yaşatan diri Rab'bin adıyla" diyecekler.

¹Ω οἱ ποιμένες οἱ διασκορπίζοντες καὶ ἀπολλύοντες τὰ πρόβατα τῆς νομῆς μου.

²διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριος ἐπὶ τοὺς ποιμαίνοντας τὸν λαόν μου· ὑμεῖς διεσκορπίσατε τά πρόβατά μου καὶ ἐξώσατε αὐτὰ καὶ οὐκ ἐπεσκέψασθε αὐτά, ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐκδικῶ ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὰ πονηρὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα ὑμῶν·

³καὶ ἐγὼ εἰσδέξομαι τοὺς καταλοίπους τοῦ λαοῦ μου ἐπὶ πάσης τῆς γῆς, οὗ ἔξωσα αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖ, καὶ καταστήσω αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν νομὴν αὐτῶν, καὶ αὐξηθήσονται καὶ πληθυνθήσονται·

⁴καὶ ἀναστήσω αὐτοῖς ποιμένας, οἳ ποιμανοῦσιν αὐτούς, καὶ οὐ φοβηθήσονται ἔτι οὐδὲ πτοηθήσονται, λέγει Κύριος.

⁵ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει Κύριος, καὶ ἀναστήσω τῷ Δαυὶδ ἀνατολὴν δικαίαν, καὶ βασιλεύσει βασιλεὺς καὶ συνήσει καὶ ποιήσει κρίμα καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

⁶ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ σωθήσεται ᾿Ιούδας, καὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ κατασκηνώσει πεποιθώς, καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, ὃ καλέσει αὐτὸν Κύριος ᾿Ιωσεδέκ.

⁹᾿Εν τοῖς προφήταις συνετρίβη ἡ καρδία μου, ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐσαλεύθη πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου, ἐγενήθην ὡς ἀνὴρ συντετριμμένος καὶ ὡς ἄνθρωπος συνεχόμενος ἀπὸ οἴνου ἀπὸ προσώπου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου εὐπρεπείας δόξης αὐτοῦ.

¹⁰ὅτι ἀπὸ προσώπου τούτων ἐπένθησεν ἡ γῆ, ἐξηράνθησαν αἱ νομαὶ τῆς ἐρήμου, καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ δρόμος αὐτῶν πονηρὸς καὶ ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτῶν οὐχ οὕτως.

¹¹ὅτι ἱερεὺς καὶ προφήτης ἐμολύνθησαν καὶ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ μου εἶδον πονηρίας αὐτῶν.

¹²διὰ τοῦτο γενέσθω ἡ ὁδὸς αὐτῶν αὐτοῖς εἰς ὀλίσθημα ἐν γνόφῳ, καὶ ὑποσκελισθήσονται καὶ πεσοῦνται ἐν αὐτῇ· διότι ἐπάξω ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς κακὰ ἐν ἐνιαυτῷ ἐπισκέψεως αὐτῶν, φησὶ Κύριος.

¹³καὶ ἐν τοῖς προφήταις Σαμαρείας εἶδον ἀνομήματα· ἐπροφήτευσαν διὰ τῆς Βάαλ καὶ ἐπλάνησαν τὸν λαόν μου ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁴καὶ ἐν τοῖς προφήταις ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἑώρακα φρικτά, μοιχωμένους καὶ πορευομένους ἐν ψεύδεσι καὶ ἀντιλαμβανομένους χειρῶν πονηρῶν τοῦ μὴ ἀποστραφῆναι ἕκαστον ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ αὐτοῦ τῆς πονηρᾶς· ἐγενήθησάν μοι πάντες ὡς Σόδομα καὶ οἱ κατοικοῦντες αὐτὴν ὥσπερ Γόμορρα.

¹⁵διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ψωμιῶ αὐτοὺς ὀδύνην καὶ ποτιῶ αὐτοὺς ὕδωρ πικρόν, ὅτι ἀπὸ τῶν προφητῶν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐξῆλθε μολυσμὸς πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.

¹⁶οὕτως λέγει Κύριος παντοκράτωρ· μὴ ἀκούετε τοὺς λόγους τῶν προφητῶν, ὅτι ματαιοῦσιν ἑαυτοῖς ὅρασιν, ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτῶν λαλοῦσι καὶ οὐκ ἀπὸ στόματος Κυρίου.

¹⁷λέγουσι τοῖς ἀπωθουμένοις τὸν λόγον Κυρίου· εἰρήνη ἔσται ὑμῖν· καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς πορευομένοις τοῖς θελήμασιν αὐτῶν, παντὶ τῷ πορευομένῳ πλάνῃ καρδίας αὐτοῦ εἶπαν· οὐχ ἥξει ἐπὶ σὲ κακά.

¹⁸ὅτι τίς ἔστη ἐν ὑποστήματι Κυρίου καὶ εἶδε τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ; τίς ἠνωτίσατο καὶ ἤκουσεν;

¹⁹ἰδοὺ σεισμὸς παρὰ Κυρίου καὶ ὀργὴ ἐκπορεύεται εἰς συσσεισμόν, συστρεφομένη ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς ἥξει.

²⁰καὶ οὐκ ἔτι ἀποστρέψει ὁ θυμὸς Κυρίου, ἕως ἂν ποιήσῃ αὐτὸ καὶ ἕως ἂν στήσῃ αὐτὸ ἀπὸ ἐγχειρήματος καρδίας αὐτοῦ· ἐπ’ ἐσχάτου τῶν ἡμερῶν νοήσουσιν αὐτά.

²¹οὐκ ἀπέστελλον τοὺς προφήτας, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔτρεχον· οὐδὲ ἐλάλησα πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπροφήτευον.

²²καὶ εἰ ἔστησαν ἐν τῇ ὑποστάσει μου καὶ εἰ ἤκουσαν τῶν λόγων μου, καὶ τὸν λαόν μου ἂν ἀπέστρεφον αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν πονηρῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων αὐτῶν.

²³Θεὸς ἐγγίζων ἐγώ εἰμι, λέγει Κύριος, καὶ οὐχὶ Θεὸς πόρρωθεν.

²⁴εἰ κρυβήσεταί τις ἐν κρυφαίοις, καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ὄψομαι αὐτόν; μὴ οὐχὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν ἐγὼ πληρῶ; λέγει Κύριος.

²⁵ἤκουσα ἃ λαλοῦσιν οἱ προφῆται, ἃ προφητεύουσιν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου ψευδῆ λέγοντες· ἠνυπνιασάμην ἐνύπνιον.

²⁶ἕως πότε ἔσται ἐν καρδίᾳ τῶν προφητῶν τῶν προφητευόντων ψευδῆ καὶ ἐν τῷ προφητεύειν αὐτοὺς τὰ θελήματα τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν;

²⁷τῶν λογιζομένων τοῦ ἐπιλαθέσθαι τοῦ νόμου μου ἐν τοῖς ἐνυπνίοις αὐτῶν, ἃ διηγοῦντο ἕκαστος τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ, καθάπερ ἐπελάθοντο οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν τοῦ ὀνόματός μου ἐν τῇ Βάαλ;

²⁸ὁ προφήτης, ἐν ᾧ τὸ ἐνύπνιόν ἐστι, διηγησάσθω τὸ ἐνύπνιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν ᾧ ὁ λόγος μου πρὸς αὐτόν, διηγησάσθω τὸν λόγον μου ἐπ’ ἀληθείας. τί τὸ ἄχυρον πρὸς τὸν σῖτον; οὕτως οἱ λόγοι μου, λέγει Κύριος.

²⁹οὐκ ἰδοὺ οἱ λόγοι μου ὥσπερ πῦρ φλέγον, λέγει Κύριος, καὶ ὡς πέλυξ κόπτων πέτραν;

³⁰ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ διὰ τοῦτο πρὸς τοὺς προφήτας, λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεός, τοὺς κλέπτοντας τοὺς λόγους μου ἕκαστον παρὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ.

³¹ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πρὸς τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς ἐκβάλλοντας προφητείας γλώσσης καὶ νυστάζοντας νυσταγμὸν ἑαυτῶν.

³²ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πρὸς τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς προφητεύοντας ἐνύπνια ψευδῆ καὶ διηγοῦντο αὐτὰ καὶ ἐπλάνησαν τὸν λαόν μου ἐν τοῖς ψεύδεσιν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐν τοῖς πλάνοις αὐτῶν καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀπέστειλα αὐτοὺς καὶ οὐκ ἐνετειλάμην αὐτοῖς καὶ ὠφέλειαν οὐκ ὠφελήσουσι τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον.

³³καὶ ἐὰν ἐρωτήσωσί σε ὁ λαὸς οὗτος ἢ ἱερεὺς ἢ προφήτης λέγων· τί τὸ λῆμμα Κυρίου; καὶ ἐρεῖς αὐτοῖς· ὑμεῖς ἐστε τὸ λῆμμα καὶ ῥάξω ὑμᾶς, λέγει Κύριος.

³⁴ὁ προφήτης καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ ὁ λαός, οἳ ἂν εἴπωσι· λῆμμα Κυρίου, καὶ ἐκδικήσω τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐκεῖνον καὶ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ.

³⁵ὅτι οὕτως ἐρεῖτε ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ· τί ἀπεκρίθη Κύριος, καὶ τί ἐλάλησε Κύριος;

³⁶καὶ λῆμμα Κυρίου μὴ ὀνομάζετε ἔτι, ὅτι τὸ λῆμμα τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἔσται ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ·

³⁷καὶ διατί ἐλάλησε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν;

³⁸διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν· ἀνθ’ ὧν εἴπατε τὸν λόγον τοῦτον· λῆμμα Κυρίου, καὶ ἀπέστειλα πρὸς ὑμᾶς λέγων· οὐκ ἐρεῖτε· λῆμμα Κυρίου,

³⁹διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ λαμβάνω καὶ ράσσω ὑμᾶς καὶ τὴν πόλιν, ἣν ἔδωκα ὑμῖν καὶ τοῖς πατράσιν ὑμῶν,

⁴⁰καὶ δώσω ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς ὀνειδισμὸν αἰώνιον καὶ ἀτιμίαν αἰώνιον, ἥτις οὐκ ἐπιλησθήσεται. -

⁷Διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει Κύριος, καὶ οὐκ ἐροῦσιν ἔτι· ζῇ Κύριος, ὃς ἀνήγαγε τὸν οἶκον ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου,

⁸ἀλλά· ζῇ Κύριος, ὃς συνήγαγε πᾶν τὸ σπέρμα ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ γῆς βορρᾶ καὶ ἀπὸ πασῶν τῶν χωρῶν, οὗ ἔξωσεν αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖ. καὶ ἀποκατέστησεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν.

¹Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture!

²Therefore thus saith the Lord against them that tend my people; Ye have scattered my sheep, and driven them out, and ye have not visited them: behold, I [will] take vengeance upon you according to your evil practices.

³And I will gather in the remnant of my people in every land, whither I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.

⁴And I will raise up shepherds to them, who shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be alarmed, saith the Lord.

⁵Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.

⁶In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

⁸but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries whither he [had] driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.

⁹My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken: I am become as a broken-down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of his glory.

¹⁰For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so [also] their strength.

¹¹For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.

¹²Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.

¹³And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led my people Israel astray.

¹⁴Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way: they are all become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth [into] all the land.

¹⁶Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets: for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.

¹⁷They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon thee.

¹⁸For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has hearkened, and heard?

¹⁹Behold, [there is] an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.

²⁰And the Lord’s wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.

²¹I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.

²²But if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had hearkened to my words, then would they have turned my people from their evil practices.

²³I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.

²⁴Shall any one hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

²⁵I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.

²⁶How long shall [these things] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?

²⁷who devise that [men] may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name in [the worship of] Baal.

²⁸The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is my word [spoken] to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, saith the Lord.

²⁹Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

³⁰Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

³¹Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep.

³²Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them [truly], and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.

³³And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then thou shalt say to them, Ye are the burden, and I will dash you down, saith the Lord.

³⁴[As for] the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.

³⁵Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What has the Lord answered? and, what has the Lord said?

³⁶And do ye name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man’s burden.

³⁷But wherefore, [say ye], has the Lord our God spoken?

³⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord our God; Because ye have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord;

³⁹therefore, behold, I [will] seize, and dash down you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.

⁴⁰And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace, which shall not be forgotten. -

⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

⁸but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries whither he had driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.