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.’”