15 Therefore 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(A) by sword and famine.(B)

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15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, (A)and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not be in this land’—‘By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed!

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20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
    Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(A)
    the children they have cared for?(B)
Should priest and prophet be killed(C)
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?(D)

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20 “See, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
(A)Should the women eat their offspring,
The children [a]they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:20 Vg. a span long