Jeremiah 14:14-18

New International Version

¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies^(A) in my name. I have not sent^(B) them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions,^(C) divinations,^(D) idolatries^[a] and the delusions of their own minds. ¹⁵Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish^(E) by sword and famine.^(F) ¹⁶And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury^(G) them, their wives, their sons and their daughters.^(H) I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.^(I)

¹⁷“Speak this word to them:

“‘Let my eyes overflow with tears^(J)
    night and day without ceasing;
for the Virgin^(K) Daughter, my people,
    has suffered a grievous wound,
    a crushing blow.^(L)
¹⁸If I go into the country,
    I see those slain by the sword;
if I go into the city,
    I see the ravages of famine.^(M)
Both prophet and priest
    have gone to a land they know not.^(N)’”

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Jeremiah 14:14 Or visions, worthless divinations

Jeremiah 14:14-18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, “The ^(A)prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. ^(B)I have neither sent them nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a ^(C)false vision, divination, futility, and the deception of their own ^[a]minds. ¹⁵Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying: ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—^(D)by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end! ¹⁶And the people to whom they are prophesying will be ^(E)thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to ^(F)bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will ^(G)pour out their own wickedness upon them.

¹⁷You will say this word to them,
‘^(H)Let my eyes stream down tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin ^(I)daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely ^(J)infected wound.
¹⁸If I ^(K)go out to the country,
There are those killed by the sword!
Or if I enter the city,
There are diseases from famine!
For ^(L)both prophet and priest
Have wandered around in the land that they do not know.’”