Jeremiah 23 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The Coming Messiah: the Righteous Branch

Jer 23:1Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:2Therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the shepherds 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 Jehovah.

Jer 23:3

Jer 23:3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their pastures; and they shall be fruitful and shall multiply.

Jer 23:4

Jer 23:4And I will raise up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:5

Jer 23:5Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, who shall reign as king, and act wisely, and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

Jer 23:6

Jer 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell in safety; and this is his name whereby he shall be called, Jehovah our Righteousness.

Jer 23:7

Jer 23:7Therefore behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, that they shall no more say, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Jer 23:8

Jer 23:8but, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led back 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.

False Prophets Denounced

Jer 23:9

Jer 23:9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome; because of Jehovah, and because of the words of his holiness.

Jer 23:10

Jer 23:10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of execration the land mourneth. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up; for their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Jer 23:11

Jer 23:11For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:12

Jer 23:12Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:13

Jer 23:13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

Jer 23:14

Jer 23:14And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Jer 23:15

Jer 23:15Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Jer 23:16

Jer 23:16Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they lead you to vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

Jer 23:17

Jer 23:17They say constantly unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace. And they say unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart, No evil shall come upon you.

Jer 23:18

Jer 23:18For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, so that he hath perceived and heard his word? who hath hearkened to his word and listened?

Jer 23:19

Jer 23:19Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, yea, a whirling storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.

Jer 23:20

Jer 23:20The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and until he have performed the purposes of his heart: at the end of the days ye shall understand it clearly.

Jer 23:21

Jer 23:21I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Jer 23:22

Jer 23:22But if they had stood in my council, and had caused my people to hear my words, then would they have turned them from their evil way and from the wickedness of their doings.

Jer 23:23

Jer 23:23Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?

Jer 23:24

Jer 23:24Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:25

Jer 23:25I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Jer 23:26

Jer 23:26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, and who are prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Jer 23:27

Jer 23:27who 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.

Jer 23:28

Jer 23:28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell the dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:29

Jer 23:29Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Jer 23:30

Jer 23:30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Jer 23:31

Jer 23:31Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He hath said.

Jer 23:32

Jer 23:32Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and that tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their boasting; and I have not sent them, nor commanded them; and they profit not this people at all, saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:33

Jer 23:33And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even cast you off, saith Jehovah.

Jer 23:34

Jer 23:34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

Jer 23:35

Jer 23:35Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother: What hath Jehovah answered? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?

Jer 23:36

Jer 23:36And the burden of Jehovah shall ye mention no more; for every man's own word shall be his burden: for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts, our God.

Jer 23:37

Jer 23:37Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?

Jer 23:38

Jer 23:38But since ye say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah;

Jer 23:39

Jer 23:39therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, far from my face, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers.

Jer 23:40

Jer 23:40And I will bring everlasting reproach upon you, and everlasting shame, that shall not be forgotten.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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The Coming Messiah: the Righteous Branch

False Prophets Denounced

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