Jeremiah 6:13

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Summary

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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General references

Jeremiah 11:9

Bible References

For

So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

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The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.

Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

General references

And the Lord said to me, There is an evil design at work among the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.