Jeremiah 14:18

New American Bible - revised edition

If I walk out into the field, look! those slain by the sword; If I enter the city, look! victims of famine. Both prophet and priest ply their trade in a land they do not know.

Cross References

Isaiah 22:2

You who were full of noise, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.

Isaiah 28:7

But these also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priest and prophet stagger from strong drink, overpowered by wine; They are confused by strong drink, they stagger in their visions, they totter when giving judgment.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Jeremiah 23:21

I did not send these prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests teach on their own authority; Yet my people like it this way; what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 6:13

Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go out into the field, do not step into the street, For the enemy has a sword; terror on every side!

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new owners. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain, prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

Lamentations 1:20

Look, O Lord, at the anguish I suffer! My stomach churns, And my heart recoils within me: How bitter I am! Outside the sword bereaves— indoors, there is death.

Lamentations 2:19

Rise up! Wail in the night, at the start of every watch; Pour out your heart like water before the Lord; Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, Who collapse from hunger at the corner of every street.

Lamentations 4:9

Better for those pierced by the sword than for those pierced by hunger, Better for those who bleed from wounds than for those who lack food.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside; disease and hunger are within. Whoever is in the fields will die by the sword; whoever is in the city disease and hunger will devour.

Amos 4:6

Though I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, and made bread scarce in all your dwellings, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Micah 3:11

Its leaders render judgment for a bribe, the priests teach for pay, the prophets divine for money, While they rely on the Lord, saying, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us!”

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you have set over you, to a nation which you and your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone,

Deuteronomy 28:64

The Lord will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone, which you and your ancestors have not known.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with fabrications, but from of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction does not sleep. Lessons from the Past.