5. “Behold, the days come,” says the Lord,“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.
6. In his days Judah will be saved,and Israel will dwell safely.This is his name by which he will be called:the Lord our righteousness.
7. “Therefore behold, the days come,” says the Lord, “that they will no more say, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
8. but, ‘As the Lord 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.”
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 the Lord,and because of his holy words.
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;
11. for both prophet and priest are profane.Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the 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 the Lord.
13. “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria.They prophesied by Baal,and caused my people Israel to err.
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.”
15. Therefore the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:“Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,and make them drink the water of gall;for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”