¹⁰ The land of Judah is full of people who commit adultery.
    They are unfaithful in many ways.
So God cursed the land,
    and it became very dry.
The plants are dried and dying in the pastures.
    The fields have become like the desert.
The prophets are evil.
    They use their influence and power in the wrong way.
¹¹ This message is from the Lord:
“The prophets and even the priests are evil.
    I have seen them doing evil things in my own Temple.
¹² I will stop giving my messages to them.
    They will walk in darkness.
The road will be slippery for those prophets and priests,
    and they will fall in that darkness.
I will bring disaster on them;
    I will punish them.”
This message is from the Lord.