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Jeremiah 14:13

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But I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! The prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’ ”

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Israel’s watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.

“Alas, Sovereign Lord,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am too young.”

And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into exile to Babylon. There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’ ”

They keep saying to those who despise me, ‘The Lord says: You will have peace.’ And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, ‘The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land’?

Then I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! How completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ when the sword is at our throats!”

They have lied about the Lord; they said, “He will do nothing! No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine.

The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them.”

The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?

They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.

They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace.

For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations among the people of Israel.

Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.”

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.




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