Jeremiah 23

1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

woe! to pasture to perish and to scatter [obj] flock pasturing my utterance LORD

2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.

to/for so thus to say LORD God Israel upon [the] to pasture [the] to pasture [obj] people my you(m. p.) to scatter [obj] flock my and to banish them and not to reckon: visit [obj] them look! I to reckon: visit upon you [obj] evil deed your utterance LORD

3 “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.

and I to gather [obj] remnant flock my from all [the] land: country/planet which to banish [obj] them there and to return: return [obj] them upon pasture their and be fruitful and to multiply

4 I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.

and to arise: establish upon them to pasture and to pasture them and not to fear still and not to to be dismayed and not to reckon: missing utterance LORD

5 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to arise: establish to/for David branch righteous and to reign king and be prudent and to make: do justice and righteousness in/on/with land: country/planet

6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

in/on/with day his to save Judah and Israel to dwell to/for security and this name his which to call: call to him LORD Righteousness our

7 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’

to/for so behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and not to say still alive LORD which to ascend: establish [obj] son: descendant/people Israel from land: country/planet Egypt

8 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”

that if: except if: except alive LORD which to ascend: establish and which to come (in): bring [obj] seed: children house: household Israel from land: country/planet north [to] and from all [the] land: country/planet which to banish them there and to dwell upon land: soil their

9 Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

to/for prophet to break heart my in/on/with entrails: among my be weak all bone my to be like/as man drunken and like/as great man to pass him wine from face: because LORD and from face: because word holiness his

10 “For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

for to commit adultery to fill [the] land: country/planet for from face: because oath to mourn [the] land: country/planet to wither habitation wilderness and to be running their bad: evil and might their not right

11 for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.

for also prophet also priest to pollute also in/on/with house: temple my to find distress: evil their utterance LORD

12 Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

to/for so to be way: journey their to/for them like/as smoothness in/on/with darkness to thrust and to fall: fall in/on/with her for to come (in): bring upon them distress: harm year punishment their utterance LORD

13 “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

and in/on/with prophet Samaria to see: see folly to prophesy in/on/with Baal and to go astray [obj] people my [obj] Israel

14 In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

and in/on/with prophet Jerusalem to see: see horror to commit adultery and to go: walk in/on/with deception and to strengthen: strengthen hand be evil to/for lest to return: turn back man: anyone from distress: evil his to be to/for me all their like/as Sodom and to dwell her like/as Gomorrah

15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

to/for so thus to say LORD Hosts upon [the] prophet look! I to eat [obj] them wormwood and to water: drink them water poison for from with prophet Jerusalem to come out: come profaneness to/for all [the] land: country/planet

16 Yahweh of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

thus to say LORD Hosts not to hear: hear upon word [the] prophet [the] to prophesy to/for you to become vain they(masc.) [obj] you vision heart their to speak: speak not from lip LORD

17 They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

to say to say to/for to spurn me to speak: speak LORD peace: well-being to be to/for you and all to go: follow in/on/with stubbornness heart his to say not to come (in): come upon you distress: harm

18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

for who? to stand: stand in/on/with counsel LORD and to see: see and to hear: hear [obj] word his who? to listen (word his *QK) and to hear: hear

19 Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked.

behold tempest LORD rage to come out: come and tempest to twist: dance upon head wicked to twist: dance

20 Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.

not to return: turn back face: anger LORD till to make: do he and till to arise: establish he plot heart his in/on/with end [the] day to understand in/on/with her understanding

21 I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.

not to send: depart [obj] [the] prophet and they(masc.) to run: run not to speak: speak to(wards) them and they(masc.) to prophesy

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

and if to stand: stand in/on/with counsel my and to hear: proclaim word my [obj] people my and to return: turn back them from way: conduct their [the] bad: evil and from evil deed their

23 “Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh, “and not a God afar off?

God from near I utterance LORD and not God from distant

24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

if: surely yes to hide man: anyone in/on/with hiding and I not to see: see him utterance LORD not [obj] [the] heaven and [obj] [the] land: country/planet I to fill utterance LORD

25 “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

to hear: hear [obj] which to say [the] prophet [the] to prophesy in/on/with name my deception to/for to say to dream to dream

26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

till how there in/on/with heart [the] prophet to prophesy [the] deception and prophet deceitfulness heart their

27 They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.

[the] to devise: think to/for to forget [obj] people my name my in/on/with dream their which to recount man: anyone to/for neighbor his like/as as which to forget father their [obj] name my in/on/with Baal

28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

[the] prophet which with him dream to recount dream and which word my with him to speak: speak word my truth: faithful what? to/for straw with [the] grain utterance LORD

29 “Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

not thus word my like/as fire utterance LORD and like/as hammer to shatter crag

30 “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.

to/for so look! I upon [the] prophet utterance LORD to steal word my man: anyone from with neighbor his

31 Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’

look! I upon [the] prophet utterance LORD [the] to take: take tongue their and to prophesy utterance

32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

look! I upon to prophesy dream deception utterance LORD and to recount them and to go astray [obj] people my in/on/with deception their and in/on/with recklessness their and I not to send: depart them and not to command them and to gain not to gain to/for people [the] this utterance LORD

33 “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’

and for to ask you [the] people [the] this or [the] prophet or priest to/for to say what? oracle LORD and to say to(wards) them [obj] what? oracle and to leave [obj] you utterance LORD

34 As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.

and [the] prophet and [the] priest and [the] people which to say oracle LORD and to reckon: punish upon [the] man [the] he/she/it and upon house: household his

35 You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’

thus to say man: anyone upon neighbor his and man: anyone to(wards) brother: male-sibling his what? to answer LORD and what? to speak: speak LORD

36 You will mention the message from Yahweh no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

and oracle LORD not to remember still for [the] oracle to be to/for man word his and to overturn [obj] word God alive LORD Hosts God our

37 You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’

thus to say to(wards) [the] prophet what? to answer you LORD and what? to speak: speak LORD

38 Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh,”

and if oracle LORD to say to/for so thus to say LORD because to say you [obj] [the] word [the] this oracle LORD and to send: depart to(wards) you to/for to say not to say oracle LORD

39 therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

to/for so look! I and to forget [obj] you to lift: raise and to leave [obj] you and [obj] [the] city which to give: give to/for you and to/for father your from upon face my

40 I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”

and to give: give upon you reproach forever: enduring and shame forever: enduring which not to forget