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Jeremiah 14:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them. "

Jeremiah 14:16

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14 Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

15 Therefore the LORD says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.

16 The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.

17 “You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

18 If I go out into the field, then behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”

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Jeremiah 14:1

"This is the LORD’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:"

Jeremiah 14:2

"“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up."

Jeremiah 14:3

"Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads."

Jeremiah 14:4

"Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads."

Jeremiah 14:5

"Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass."

Jeremiah 14:6

"The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation."

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