Jeremiah 14:15-17

The Voice

¹⁵This is what the Eternal says regarding the false prophets who attempt to speak in His name.

Eternal One: I simply did not send them. Those who are proclaiming to the people, “No war or famine will touch this land,” will themselves die in war and famine. ¹⁶And those foolish enough to listen to their prophecies will be tossed into the streets of Jerusalem, weakened by famine, victims of war. They will die, and there will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters because I will pour out their own evil upon them.

¹⁷God told me to speak these words to them:

Jeremiah: May my eyes fill with tears day and night.
    Let me not stop crying for what I see:
        for my tender virgin daughter—my people—
    Has suffered a crushing blow.
        I see her now with a serious, gaping wound.