They tell the prophets to keep quiet. They say, "Don't talk to us about what's right. Tell us what we want to hear. Let us keep our illusions.

and as soon as I had finished all that the LORD had commanded me to speak, they grabbed me and shouted, "You ought to be killed for this!

Why have you said in the LORD's name that this Temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will be destroyed and no one will live in it?" Then the people crowded around me.

(There was another man, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim, who spoke in the name of the LORD against this city and nation just as Jeremiah did.

King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men to Egypt to get Uriah.

"Mortal man," he said, "look toward the south. Speak against the south and prophesy against the forest of the south.

"Mortal man," he said, "denounce Jerusalem. Denounce the places where people worship. Warn the land of Israel

But you made the nazirites drink wine, and ordered the prophets not to speak my message.

Don't prophesy here at Bethel any more. This is the king's place of worship, the national temple."

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn these men never again to speak to anyone in the name of Jesus."

"We gave you strict orders not to teach in the name of this man," he said; "but see what you have done! You have spread your teaching all over Jerusalem, and you want to make us responsible for his death!"

They called the apostles in, had them whipped, and ordered them never again to speak in the name of Jesus; and then they set them free.

"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!

They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!

All our sacred symbols are gone; there are no prophets left, and no one knows how long this will last.

I will paralyze your tongue so that you won't be able to warn these rebellious people.

"The time is coming when I will send famine on the land. People will be hungry, but not for bread; they will be thirsty, but not for water. They will hunger and thirst for a message from the LORD. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.

On that day even healthy young men and women will collapse from thirst.

They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.

Were they ashamed because they did these disgusting things? No, they were not at all ashamed; they don't even know how to blush. And so they will fall as others have fallen; when I punish them, that will be the end of them. I, the LORD, have spoken."

They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.

My people, were you ashamed because you did these disgusting things? No, you were not ashamed at all; you don't even know how to blush! And so you will fall as others have fallen; when I punish you, that will be the end of you. I, the LORD, have spoken.