Jeremiah 14:18

If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

In Context

17And thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of my people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? and has thy soul departed from Zion? wherefore hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:36The Lord carry away thee and thy princes, whom thou shalt set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers know; and thou shalt there serve other gods, wood and stone.

Isaiah 28:7For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.

Jeremiah 5:31the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved to have it thus: and what will ye do for the future?

Jeremiah 8:10Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 52:6on the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Lamentations 2:19Arise, rejoice in the night 1 At the beginning of thy watch: 1 Pour out thy heart as water 1 Before the face of the Lord: 1 Lift up thy hands to him 1 For the life of thine infants, 1 Who faint for hunger 1 At the top of all the streets. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:18-22

The Prophet's Intercession. ( b. c. 606.) 17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?… Read the whole commentary →

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