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18 When I go out in the fields,
    I see the bodies of men killed in war;
when I go into the towns,
    I see people starving to death.
Prophets and priests carry on their work,
    but they don't know what they are doing.”[a]

The People Plead with the Lord

19 Lord, have you completely rejected Judah?
    Do you hate the people of Zion?
Why have you hurt us so badly
    that we cannot be healed?
We looked for peace, but nothing good happened;
    we hoped for healing, but terror came instead.
20 We have sinned against you, Lord;
    we confess our own sins
    and the sins of our ancestors.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:18 Prophets … doing; or Prophets and priests have been dragged away to a land they know nothing about.

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