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13 “Among the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing,
    for they prophesied by Baal
        and led my people Israel astray.
14 Among the prophets of Jerusalem I saw a horrible thing,
    for they commit adultery and live a lie.
They strengthen the hands of those who do evil,
    so that no one repents of his evil.
All of them are like Sodom to me,
    and her[a] residents like Gomorrah.”

15 Therefore, this is what the Lord God of the Heavenly Armies says about the prophets,

“I’m about to make them eat wormwood[b]
    and drink poisoned water,
because godlessness has spread from the
    prophets of Jerusalem throughout the land.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:14 I.e. Jerusalem’s
  2. Jeremiah 23:15 Wormwood is a plant with an extremely bitter taste