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Jeremiah 23:11

Judgment

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.

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.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
KJV
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
WEB
for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD.
ASV
for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
DARBY
For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
BLB
“For both prophet [and] priest are polluted, and even in My house I have found their evil!” A declaration of YHWH.
ÅB
For både profet og prest er gudløse; selv i mitt hus har jeg funnet deres ondskap, sier Herren.
OTB
"For både profet og prest er korrupte; selv i mitt hus har jeg funnet deres ondskap," sier Herren.
B1930
For både profet og prest er gudløse; selv i mitt hus har jeg funnet deres ondskap, sier Herren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 6:13

    For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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  • Zephaniah 3:4

    Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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  • Matthew 21:12–13

    And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

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  • Jeremiah 32:34

    But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

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  • Ezekiel 23:39

    For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:14

    Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

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  • Jeremiah 8:10

    Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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  • Jeremiah 7:10–11

    And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

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