Jeremiah 23:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸Instead, they will say, “As the Lord lives who brought up the descendants of the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he^[a] has banished them so that they can live in their own land.”

Oracles against the prophets

⁹As for the prophets:
My heart inside me is broken;
    my body aches.^[b]
I stagger like a drunk
    who has had too much wine to drink,
        because of the Lord
        and because of God’s holy words.
¹⁰Because the country teems
    with adulterers,
    because of them,^[c]
        yes, because their might isn’t right
        and their way is evil,
        the land dries up,
        and the grazing areas in the wilderness wither.^[d]