Jeremiah 14:16-18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶And everyone who listens to them will be killed, just as they deserve. Their dead bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, because their families will also be dead, and no one will be left to bury them.^[a]

¹⁷Jeremiah, go and tell the people how you feel about all this.

So I told them:

“Tears will flood my eyes
    both day and night,
because my nation suffers
    from a deadly wound.
¹⁸In the fields I see the bodies
    of those killed in battle.
And in the towns I see crowds
    dying of hunger.
But the prophets and priests
    go about their business,
without understanding
    what has happened.”^[b]

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Footnotes

14.16 dead bodies … bury them: A proper burial was considered very important.
14.18 go about … has happened: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.