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15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name though I did not send them, yet they say, “Sword and famine will not be in this land.” By sword and famine those prophets will be consumed. 16 The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. And they will have no one to bury them, not them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

17 Therefore you will say this word to them:

Let my eyes run down with tears
    night and day, and let them not cease;
for the virgin daughter of my people
    has been broken with a great blow,
    with a very infected wound.

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