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Jeremiah 14:18

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18‘If I ago out to the field,

Behold, those 1slain with the sword!

Or if I enter the city,

Behold, diseases of famine!

For bboth prophet and priest

Have gone around as merchants in the land that they do not know.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit pierced

Cross references

  1. aJer 6:25; Lam 1:20; Ezek 7:15
  2. bJer 6:13; 8:10

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If I go out into the field,

behold, those pierced by the sword!

And if I enter the city,

behold, the diseases of famine!

For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land

and have no knowledge.’ ”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If I go into the country,

I see those slain by the sword;

if I go into the city,

I see the ravages of famine.

Both prophet and priest

have gone to a land they know not.’ ”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If I go out to the field,

look—those slain by the sword!

If I enter the city,

look—those ill from famine!

For both prophet and priest

travel to a land they do not know.

NLTNew Living Translation

If I go out into the fields,

I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy.

If I walk the city streets,

I see people who have died of starvation.

The prophets and priests continue with their work,

but they don’t know what they’re doing.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If I go out into the field,

then look, those slain by the sword.

And if I enter the city,

then look, the sickness of the famine.

For both prophet and priest wander around through the land,

they do not know what is going on.’ ”

KJV 1900King 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.