B. Jehovah's Punishment
upon the Prophets of Judah
with the Priests and with the People

Jeremiah 23 also shows us Jehovah's punishment upon the prophets of Judah with the priests and with the people. This punishment also is of five aspects.

1. Jehovah Making Their Way
like Slippery Paths to Them

Jehovah will make their way like slippery paths to them. In the darkness they will be driven and fall in it. He will bring evil on them in the year of their punishment (v. 12).

2. Jehovah Feeding Them with Wormwood

Jehovah will feed them with wormwood and will give them poisoned water to drink (v. 15a).

3. Jehovah's Wrath Going Forth
like the Storm Wind, Even a Whirling Tempest
Which Will Whirl Down
on the Head of the Wicked Prophet

Jehovah's wrath will go forth like the storm wind, even a whirling tempest which will whirl down on the head of the wicked prophet. The anger of Jehovah will not turn back until it has executed and until it has accomplished the purposes of His heart (vv. 19-20).

4. Jehovah Being against the False Prophets

Jehovah will be against the false prophets, who have perverted the words of the living God. He will punish them and their household (vv. 30-38).

5. Jehovah Utterly Forgetting Them
and Casting Away from His Presence Them
and the City Which He Gave to Them
and to Their Fathers

Jehovah will utterly forget them and cast away from His presence them and the city which He gave to them and to their fathers. He will bring upon them eternal reproach and eternal humiliation, which will not be forgotten (vv. 39-40).