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18 If I go out into the field,
    then look, those slain by the sword.
And if I enter the city,
    then look, the sickness of the famine.
For both prophet and priest wander around through the land,
    they do not know what is going on.’”[a]
19 Have you completely rejected Judah?
    Or has your soul[b] loathed Zion?
Why have you struck us
    so that there is no healing for us?
We hope for peace, but there is no good,
    and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.
20 We know, O Yahweh, our wickedness,
    the iniquity of our ancestors,[c]
    for we have sinned against you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:18 Literally “and not they know”
  2. Jeremiah 14:19 Or “inner self”
  3. Jeremiah 14:20 Or “fathers”