Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions.They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity,but have seen for you false and misleading oracles.SAMEKH

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In The King James Version

Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

In Context

13What shall I testify of you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?For your ruin is great like the sea. Who can heal you?NUN

15All that pass by clap their hands at you,they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,"Is this the city that men called 'The perfection of beauty,' 'The joy of the whole earth'?"AYIN

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:15The elder and the honorable man is the head,and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

Jeremiah 2:8The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord?' And those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 6:13"For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness;and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 14:13Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, the prophets tell them, 'You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"

Jeremiah 23:22But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 23:31Behold, I am against the prophets,' says the Lord, 'who use their tongues, and say, "He says."

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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