Jeremiah 14:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them—including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness.”

¹⁷The Lord commanded me to tell the people about my sorrow and to say:

“May my eyes flow with tears day and night,
    may I never stop weeping,
for my people are deeply wounded
    and are badly hurt.
¹⁸When I go out in the fields,
    I see the bodies of men killed in war;
when I go into the towns,
    I see people starving to death.
Prophets and priests carry on their work,
    but they don't know what they are doing.”^[a]