1 He prophesies a restoration of the scattered flock.
5 Christ shall rule and save them.
9 Against false prophets;
33 and mockers of the true prophets.

Woe. 2:8,26 Eze 13:3 34:2 Zec 11:17 Mt 23:13-29 Lu 11:42-52

pastors. 2,11-15 2:8 10:21 12:10 22:22 25:34-36 50:6 Isa 56:9-12 Eze 22:25-29 34:2-10,21 Mic 3:11,12 Zep 3:3,4 Zec 11:5-7,15-17 Mt 9:36 15:14 Joh 10:10,12

2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors 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 the LORD.

and have. Mt 25:36,43 Jas 1:27

I. 34 5:9,29 8:12 11:22 13:21 Ex 32:34 Ho 2:13 Mic 7:4

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

29:14 30:3 31:8 32:37 De 30:3-5 Ps 106:47 Isa 11:11-16 Isa 27:12,13 43:5,6 Eze 11:17 34:13 36:24,37 37:21-27 Eze 39:27,28 Am 9:14,15 Mic 7:12 Zec 10:8-12

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, saith the LORD.

I. 3:14,15 33:26 Ps 78:70-72 Isa 11:11 Eze 34:23 Ho 3:3-5 Mic 5:2,4,5 7:14 Joh 21:15-17 Ac 20:28,29 1Pe 5:1-4

neither. Nu 31:49 Joh 6:39,40 10:27-30 17:12 18:9 1Pe 1:5

5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

the days. 30:3 31:27,31-38 33:14 Heb 8:8

I. 33:15 Ps 72:1,2 Isa 32:1,2 40:10,11 Da 9:24 Am 9:11 Zec 9:9 Re 19:11

branch. Ps 80:15 Isa 4:2 11:1-5 40:9,11 53:2 Eze 17:2-10,22-24 34:29 Zec 3:8 6:12,13 Joh 1:45

reign. 22:30 Ps 45:4 Isa 9:7 52:13 53:10 Lu 1:32,33

and shall. 22:3,15 Ps 72:2

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.

Judah. De 33:28,29 Ps 130:7,8 Isa 12:1,2 33:22 45:17 Eze 37:24-28 Ho 1:7 Ob 17:21 Zec 10:6 Mt 1:21 Lu 1:71-74 19:9,10 Ro 11:26,27

dwell. 30:10 32:37 1Ki 4:25 Isa 2:4 35:9 Eze 34:25-28 Ho 2:18 Zep 3:13 Zec 2:4,5 3:10 14:9-11

and this. Isa 7:14 9:6 Mt 1:21-23

THE. LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Heb. JEHOVAH-tsidkenu. 33:16 Isa 45:24,25 54:17 Da 9:24 Ro 3:22 1Co 1:30 2Co 5:21 Php 3:9

7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

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See on ch. 16:14,15 31:32-34 Isa 43:18,19

8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led 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.

22:3 Isa 14:1 27:12,13 43:5,6 65:8-10 Eze 34:13 36:24 37:25 Eze 39:28 Zep 3:20 Am 9:14,15

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.

A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. Heart. 9:1 14:17,18 2Ki 22:19,20 Eze 9:4,6 Da 8:27 Hab 3:16

because. 5:31

like a drunken. 25:15-18 Ps 60:3 Isa 6:5 28:1 29:9 51:21 La 3:15 Ro 7:9

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.

full. 5:7,8 7:9 9:2 Eze 22:9-11 Ho 4:2,3 Mal 3:5 1Co 6:9,10 Ga 5:19-21 Heb 13:4 Jas 4:4

because. Zec 5:3,4 1Ti 1:10

swearing. Heb. cursing. the land. 12:3,4 14:2 La 1:2-4 Joe 1:10

the pleasant. 9:10 Ps 107:34 Isa 24:6

course. or, violence.

11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

both. 22:15 5:31 6:13 8:10 Eze 22:25,26 Zep 3:4

in. 7:10,11,30 11:15 31:34 2Ch 33:5,7 36:14 Eze 7:20 Eze 8:5,6,11,16 23:39 Mt 21:12,13

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.

as. 13:16 Ps 35:6 73:18 Pr 4:19

in the. Job 18:18 Isa 8:22 Joh 12:35 1Jo 2:11 Jude 1:13

the year. 11:23 23:12 48:44 50:27 Ex 32:34 Mic 7:4

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

folly. or, an absurd thing. Heb. unsavoury. prophets. Ho 9:7,8

prophesied. 2:8 1Ki 18:18-21,25-28,40

and. 2Ch 33:9 Isa 9:16

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 doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

in the. 5:30,31 14:14 Eze 13:2-4,16 22:25 Isa 41:6,7 Mic 3:11 Zep 3:4 2Pe 2:1,2

an horrible thing. or filthiness. 18:13

they commit. 29:23 2Pe 2:14-19

walk. 17,25,26,32 14:14 Eze 22:25 2Th 2:9-11 1Ti 4:2 Re 19:20 Re 21:8 22:15

strengthen. Eze 13:22,23

Sodom. Ge 13:13 18:20 De 32:32 Isa 1:9,10 Eze 16:46-52 Mal 1:1 Mt 11:24 2Pe 2:6 Jude 7 Re 11:8

15 Therefore thus saith 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.

will. 8:14 9:15 Ps 69:21 La 3:5,15,19 Mt 27:34 Re 8:11

profaneness. or, hypocrisy.

16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

Hearken. 27:9,10,14-17 29:8 Pr 19:27 Mt 7:15 2Co 11:13-15 Ga 1:8,9 1Jo 4:1

they make. 2:5 2Ki 17:15 Ro 1:21

a vision. 21,26 14:14 Eze 13:3,6,16,23 22:28 Mic 2:11

17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

that despise. Nu 11:20 1Sa 2:30 2Sa 12:10 Mal 1:6 Lu 10:16 1Th 4:8

ye. 4:10 6:14 8:11 14:13,14 28:3-9 Isa 3:10,11 57:21 La 2:14 Eze 13:10,15,16,22 Mic 3:5,11 Zec 10:2

imagination. or, stubbornness. 3:17 7:24 9:14 13:10 De 29:19

no. 18:18 Am 9:10 Mic 3:11 Zep 1:12

18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

who. 22 1Ki 22:24 Job 15:8-10 2Ch 18:23 Isa 40:13,14 1Co 2:16

counsel. or, secret. Ps 25:14 Am 3:7 Joh 15:15

19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

4:11 25:32 30:23 Ps 58:9 Pr 1:27 10:25 Isa 5:25-28 21:1 Isa 40:24 66:15,16 Am 1:14 Na 1:3-6 Zec 9:14

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 ye shall consider it perfectly.

until. 30:24 Isa 14:24 Zec 1:6 8:14,15

in the. Ge 49:1 De 31:29,30 1Ki 8:47 Pr 5:11-14 21:30 Ho 3:4,5

21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

32 14:14 27:15 28:15 29:9,31 Isa 6:8 Joh 20:21 Ac 14:5 Ro 10:15

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.

if. 18 Eze 2:7 3:17 Ac 20:27

then. 25:5 35:15 36:3 Eze 13:22 18:30 Zec 1:4 Ac 26:18-20 1Th 1:9,10 5:6

23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

1Ki 20:23,28 Ps 113:5 139:1-10 Eze 20:32-35 Jon 1:3,4

24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

hide. 49:10 Ge 16:13 Job 22:13,14 24:13-16 Ps 10:11 90:8 Ps 139:7,11-16 Pr 15:3 Isa 29:15 Eze 8:12 9:9 Am 9:2,3

do. 1Ki 8:27 2Ch 2:6 6:18 Isa 57:15 66:1 Da 4:35 Eph 1:23

25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

heard. 8:6 13:27 16:17 29:23 Ps 139:2,4 Lu 12:3 1Co 4:5 Heb 4:13 Re 2:23

dreamed. 28,32 29:8 Ge 37:5,9 Nu 12:6 Joe 2:28 Mt 1:20

26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

How. 4:14 13:27 Ps 4:2 Ho 8:5 Ac 13:10

prophets of. See on ch. 14:14 17:9 Isa 30:10 2Th 2:9-11 1Ti 4:1,2 2Ti 4:3 2Pe 2:13-16

27 Which 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.

think. De 13:1-5 Ac 13:8 2Ti 2:17,18 3:6-8

as. Jud 3:7 8:33,34 10:6 2Ki 21:3

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

that hath. Heb. with whom is. speak. Pr 14:5 Mt 24:45 Lu 12:42 1Co 4:2 2Co 2:17 1Ti 1:12

what. That is, when the dreamers declare their dreams, and the true prophets faithfully declare their message, the difference between them will be as evident as that between the chaff and the wheat.

1Co 3:12,13

29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

like as. 5:14 20:9 Lu 24:32 Joh 6:63 Ac 2:3,37 2Co 2:16 10:4,5 Heb 4:12 Re 11:5

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

14:14,15 44:11,29 Le 20:3 26:17 De 18:20 29:20 Ps 34:16 Eze 13:8,20 15:7 1Pe 3:12

31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

use. or, smooth. See on ver. Isa 30:10 Mic 2:11

he. 17 2Ch 18:5,10-12,19-21

32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith 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, saith the LORD.

to err. 16 27:14 28:15-17 29:21-23,31 De 13:1 18:20 Isa 3:12 Eze 13:7-18 Zec 13:2,3 Re 19:20

and by. Zep 3:4 2Co 1:17

therefore. 22 7:8 La 2:14 Mt 15:14

33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.

What. 17:15 20:7,8 Isa 13:1 14:28 Na 1:1 Hab 1:1 Mal 1:1

I. 39,40 12:7 De 31:17,18 32:19,20 2Ch 15:2 Ps 78:59,60 Ho 9:12

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.

punish. Heb. visit upon. 2

35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

31:34 Heb 8:11

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

for every. Ps 12:3 64:8 120:3 149:9 Pr 17:20 Isa 3:8 Mt 12:36 Lu 19:22 2Pe 2:17,18 Jude 15:16

for ye. Isa 28:13,14,22 Ga 1:7-9 6:5 2Pe 3:16

of the. 10:10 De 5:26 1Sa 17:26,36 2Ki 19:4 Ac 14:15 1Th 1:9

37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

no reference

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

no reference

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:

I, even I. Ge 6:17 Le 26:28 De 32:39 Isa 48:15 51:12 Eze 5:8 6:3 Eze 34:11,20 Pr 13:13 Ho 4:6 5:14

and I. 33 32:38-35 35:17 36:31 La 5:20 Eze 8:18 9:6 Ho 9:12-17

cast. 52:3 Ps 51:11 Mt 25:41 2Th 1:9

40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

See on ch. 20:11 24:9 42:18 44:8-12 De 28:37 Eze 5:14,15 Da 9:16 12:2 Ho 4:7