Verse 18
Jeremiah 14:18
Literal Standard Version
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If I have gone forth to the field, || Then, behold, the pierced of the sword! And if I have entered the city, || Then, behold, the diseased of famine! For both prophet and priest have gone up and down || To a land that they did not know.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
אִם יָצָ֣אתִי הַ/שָּׂדֶ֗ה וְ/הִנֵּה֙ חַלְלֵי חֶ֔רֶב וְ/אִם֙ בָּ֣אתִי הָ/עִ֔יר וְ/הִנֵּ֖ה תַּחֲלוּאֵ֣י רָעָ֑ב כִּֽי גַם נָבִ֧יא גַם כֹּהֵ֛ן סָחֲר֥וּ אֶל אֶ֖רֶץ וְ/לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ
English Translation
If I went out to the field and behold, the slain by the sword; and if I came to the city and behold, the sufferers of hunger; for both the prophet and the priest have gone to a land and they do not know.
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Chapter 14 Context
1
That which has been the word of YHWH to Jeremiah concerning the matters of the scarcities:
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2
“Judah has mourned, and her gates have languished, || They have mourned to the earth, || And the cry...
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3
And their majestic ones have sent their little ones to the water, || They have come to ditches, || T...
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4
Because the ground has been broken, || For there has been no rain in the land, || Farmers have been...
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5
For even the doe in the field has brought forth—to forsake it! || For there has been no grass.
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6
And wild donkeys have stood on high places, || They have swallowed up wind like dragons, || Their ey...
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7
Surely our iniquities have testified against us, || O YHWH, work for Your Name’s sake, || For our ba...
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8
O Hope of Israel—its Savior in time of trouble, || Why are You as a sojourner in the land? And as a...
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9
Why are You as one mute? As a mighty one not able to save? And You are in our midst, O YHWH, || And...
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10
Thus said YHWH concerning this people: “They have loved to wander well, || They have not restrained...
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11
And YHWH says to me: “You do not pray for this people for good.
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12
When they fast, I do not listen to their cry, and when they cause burnt-offering and present to asce...
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13
And I say, “Aah! Lord YHWH, behold, the prophets are saying to them: You do not see a sword, indeed,...
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14
And YHWH says to me: “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My Name. I did not send them, nor co...
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15
Therefore, thus said YHWH concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My Name and I have not sent...
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16
And the people to whom they are prophesying are cast into out-places of Jerusalem, because of the fa...
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17
And you have said this word to them: Tears come down my eyes night and day, || And they do not cease...
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18
If I have gone forth to the field, || Then, behold, the pierced of the sword! And if I have entered...
19
Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us, || And there is...
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20
We have known, O YHWH, our wickedness, || The iniquity of our fathers, || For we have sinned against...
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21
Do not despise, for Your Name’s sake, || Do not dishonor the throne of Your glory, || Remember, do n...
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22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are Y...
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