1 ويل للرعاة الذين يهلكون ويبددون غنم رعيتي يقول الرب.2 لذلك هكذا قال الرب اله اسرائيل عن الرعاة الذين يرعون شعبي. انتم بددتم غنمي وطردتموها ولم تتعهدوها. هانذا اعاقبكم على شر اعمالكم يقول الرب.3 وانا اجمع بقية غنمي من جميع الاراضي التي طردتها اليها واردها الى مرابضها فتثمر وتكثر.4 واقيم عليها رعاة يرعونها فلا تخاف بعد ولا ترتعد ولا تفقد يقول الرب5 ها ايام تأتي يقول الرب واقيم لداود غصن بر فيملك ملك وينجح ويجري حقا وعدلا في الارض.6 في ايامه يخلص يهوذا ويسكن اسرائيل آمنا وهذا هو اسمه الذي يدعونه به الرب برنا.7 لذلك ها ايام تأتي يقول الرب ولا يقولون بعد حيّ هو الرب الذي اصعد بني اسرائيل من ارض مصر.8 بل حيّ هو الرب الذي اصعد وأتى بنسل بيت اسرائيل من ارض الشمال ومن جميع الاراضي التي طردتهم اليها فيسكنون في ارضهم9 في الانبياء--انسحق قلبي في وسطي. ارتخت كل عظامي. صرت كانسان سكران ومثل رجل غلبته الخمر من اجل الرب ومن اجل كلام قدسه.10 لان الارض امتلأت من الفاسقين. لانه من اجل اللعن ناحت الارض جفت مراعي البرية وصار سعيهم للشر وجبروتهم للباطل.11 لان الانبياء والكهنة تنجسوا جميعا بل في بيتي وجدت شرهم يقول الرب.12 لذلك يكون طريقهم لهم كمزالق في ظلام دامس فيطردون ويسقطون فيها لاني اجلب عليهم شرا سنة عقابهم يقول الرب.13 وقد رأيت في انبياء السامرة حماقة. تنبأوا بالبعل واضلوا شعبي اسرائيل.14 وفي انبياء اورشليم رأيت ما يقشعر منه. يفسقون ويسلكون بالكذب ويشددون ايادي فاعلي الشر حتى لا يرجعوا الواحد عن شره. صاروا لي كلهم كسدوم وسكانها كعمورة.15 لذلك هكذا قال رب الجنود عن الانبياء. هانذا اطعمهم افسنتينا واسقيهم ماء العلقم لانه من عند انبياء اورشليم خرج نفاق في كل الارض.16 هكذا قال رب الجنود لا تسمعوا لكلام الانبياء الذين يتنبأون لكم. فانهم يجعلونكم باطلا. يتكلمون برؤيا قلبهم لا عن فم الرب.17 قائلين قولا لمحتقريّ قال الرب يكون لكم سلام. ويقولون لكل من يسير في عناد قلبه لا يأتي عليكم شر.18 لانه من وقف في مجلس الرب وراى وسمع كلمته. من اصغى لكلمته وسمع19 ها زوبعة الرب. غيظ يخرج ونوء هائج. على رؤوس الاشرار يثور.20 لا يرتد غضب الرب حتى يجري ويقيم مقاصد قلبه. في آخر الايام تفهمون فهما.21 لم ارسل الانبياء بل هم جروا. لم اتكلم معهم بل هم تنبأوا.22 ولو وقفوا في مجلسي لأخبروا شعبي بكلامي وردّوهم عن طريقهم الرديء وعن شر اعمالهم.23 ألعلي اله من قريب يقول الرب ولست الها من بعيد.24 اذا اختبأ انسان في اماكن مستترة أفما اراه انا يقول الرب. أما املأ انا السموات والارض يقول الرب.25 قد سمعت ما قالته الانبياء الذين تنبأوا باسمي بالكذب قائلين حلمت حلمت.26 حتى متى يوجد في قلب الانبياء المتنبئين بالكذب بل هم انبياء خداع قلبهم27 الذين يفكرون ان ينسّوا شعبي اسمي باحلامهم التي يقصونها الرجل على صاحبه كما نسي اباؤهم اسمي لاجل البعل.28 النبي الذي معه حلم فليقص حلما والذي معه كلمتي فليتكلم بكلمتي بالحق. ما للتبن مع الحنطة يقول الرب.29 أليست هكذا كلمتي كنار يقول الرب وكمطرقة تحطم الصخر.30 لذلك هانذا على الانبياء يقول الرب الذين يسرقون كلمتي بعضهم من بعض.31 هانذا على الانبياء يقول الرب الذين ياخذون لسانهم ويقولون قال.32 هانذا على الذين يتنبأون باحلام كاذبة يقول الرب الذين يقصونها ويضلون شعبي باكاذيبهم ومفاخراتهم وانا لم ارسلهم ولا أمرتهم. فلم يفيدوا هذا الشعب فائدة يقول الرب33 واذا سألك هذا الشعب او نبي او كاهن قائلا ما وحي الرب فقل لهم اي وحي. اني ارفضكم هو قول الرب.34 فالنبي او الكاهن او الشعب الذي يقول وحي الرب اعاقب ذلك الرجل وبيته.35 هكذا تقولون الرجل لصاحبه والرجل لاخيه بماذا اجاب الرب وماذا تكلم به الرب.36 اما وحي الرب فلا تذكروه بعد لان كلمة كل انسان تكون وحيه اذ قد حرّفتم كلام الاله الحي رب الجنود الهنا.37 هكذا تقول للنبي بماذا اجابك الرب وماذا تكلم به الرب.38 واذا كنتم تقولون وحي الرب فلذلك هكذا قال الرب من اجل قولكم هذه الكلمة وحي الرب وقد ارسلت اليكم قائلا لا تقولوا وحي الرب39 لذلك هانذا انساكم نسيانا وارفضكم من امام وجهي انتم والمدينة التي اعطيتكم وآباءكم اياها.40 واجعل عليكم عارا ابديا وخزيا ابديا لا ينسى

1 Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! said the LORD.2 Therefore thus said the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, said the LORD.3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where 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, said the LORD.5 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will raise to 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, said the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;8 But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.9 My 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 has 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 mourns; 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; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, said the LORD.12 Why their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, said 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 does return from his wickedness; they are all of them to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.15 Therefore thus said 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 said the LORD of hosts, Listen not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to 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 to them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say to every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come on you.18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has 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 on 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 you 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, said the LORD, and not a God afar off?24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? said the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? said 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? yes, 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 neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? said the LORD.29 Is not my word like as a fire? said the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, said the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.31 Behold, I am against the prophets, said the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He said.32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, said 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, said the LORD.33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? you shall then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, said 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 you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?36 And the burden of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man' word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.37 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?38 But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus said 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 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 on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.