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Lamentations 2:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Your prophets saw visions for you that were empty and deceptive;  , they did not reveal your iniquity and so restore your fortunes. They saw pronouncements for you that were empty and misleading.

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Her prophets plaster for them with whitewash by seeing false visions and lying divinations,  saying, “This is what the Lord God says,” when the Lord has not spoken.


The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?


‘Cry out loudly, don’t hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Tell my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.


The conspiracy of her prophets  within her is  like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.


The priests stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord? ’ The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers  rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by   Baal and followed useless idols.


Her prophets are reckless   – treacherous men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to instruction.


If a man comes and utters empty lies    – ‘I will preach to you about wine and beer’   – he would be just the preacher for this people!


Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (when I intended no distress),  and because you have supported  the wicked  person so that he does not turn from his evil way to save his life,


Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, “The king of Babylon will not come against you and this land”?


The prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, ‘Listen, Hananiah! The Lord did not send you, but you have led these people to trust in a lie.


But no longer refer to  the burden of the Lord, for each man’s word becomes his burden and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of Armies, our God.


If they had really stood in my council, they would have enabled my people to hear my words and would have turned them from their evil ways and their evil deeds.


As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon.  There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies.” ’


This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, the ones prophesying a lie to you in my name:  ‘I am about to hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.


Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous within her.


Then the Lord said to me, ‘Son of man, will you pass judgement against Oholah and Oholibah?  Then declare their detestable practices to them.


The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognise it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your iniquity and hostility.


As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the  Lord, with justice and courage, to proclaim to Jacob his rebellion and to Israel his sin.





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