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15 Therefore[a] thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they are saying, “Sword and famine will not be in this land.” “By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish. 16 And the people to whom they are prophesying will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem because of[b] the famine and the sword. And there will be no one who buries them, their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. And I will pour out on them their wickedness.

The Nation Hopes in Yahweh

17 “And you shall say to them this word,

‘Let my eyes melt with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for with a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken,
    with a very incurable wound.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:15 Literally “To thus”
  2. Jeremiah 14:16 Literally “from the face of”