Jer 23:8-17, 44:14-17, Tit 3:1 | ESV | STEP | but As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them. Then they shall dwell in their own land .

Jeremiah 23:8-17

8 but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew I} had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

Lying Prophets

9 Concerning the prophets:

^bMy heart is broken within me;
^call my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord
and because of his holy words.
10 ^dFor the land is full of adulterers;
^ebecause of the curse ^fthe land mourns,
and ^gthe pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
^hTheir course is evil,
and their might is not right.
11 ⁱ“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even ^jin my house I have found their evil,

declares the Lord.
12 ^kTherefore their way shall be to them
like slippery paths ^lin the darkness,
into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
^min the year of their punishment,

declares the Lord.
13 In the prophets of ⁿSamaria
^oI saw an unsavory thing:
^pthey prophesied by Baal
^qand led my people Israel astray.
14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
^rthey commit adultery and walk in lies;
^sthey strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
^tall of them have become like Sodom to me,
^uand its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
^v“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
^wand give them ^xpoisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, ^yfilling you with vain hopes. ^zThey speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. 17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ^aa‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who ^abstubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ^ac‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”

Jeremiah 44:14-17

14 ^adso that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive ^aeor return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, ^afexcept some fugitives.”

15 Then all the men who knew that ^agtheir wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in ^ahPathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: 16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ^aiwe will not listen to you. 17 ^ajBut we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to ^akthe queen of heaven ^aland pour out drink offerings to her, ^amas we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

Titus 3:1

Be Ready for Every Good Work

1 Remind them ^anto be submissive to rulers and authorities, ^aoto be obedient, to be ready for every good work,