Jeremiah 14:13-22

New American Standard Bible

False Prophets

¹³But I said, “Oh, Lord ^[a]God! Behold, the prophets are telling them, ‘You ^(A)will not see a sword, nor will you have famine; on the contrary, I will give you lasting ^(B)peace in this place.’” ¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, “The ^(C)prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. ^(D)I have neither sent them nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a ^(E)false vision, divination, futility, and the deception of their own ^[b]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’—^(F)by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end! ¹⁶And the people to whom they are prophesying will be ^(G)thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to ^(H)bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will ^(I)pour out their own wickedness upon them.

¹⁷You will say this word to them,
‘^(J)Let my eyes stream down tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin ^(K)daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely ^(L)infected wound.
¹⁸If I ^(M)go out to the country,
There are those killed by the sword!
Or if I enter the city,
There are diseases from famine!
For ^(N)both prophet and priest
Have wandered around in the land that they do not know.’”

¹⁹Have You completely ^(O)rejected Judah?
Or have ^[c]You loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that we ^(P)are beyond healing?
We ^(Q)waited for peace, but nothing good came;
And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!
²⁰We ^(R)know our wickedness, Lord,
The wrongdoing of our fathers, for ^(S)we have sinned against You.
²¹Do not despise us, ^(T)for the sake of Your own name;
Do not disgrace the ^(U)throne of Your glory.
Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.
²²Are there any among the ^[d]^(V)idols of the nations who ^(W)give rain?
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, Lord our God?
Therefore we ^(X)wait for You,
For You are the one who has done all these things.