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Then the LORD said to me, "The ^(C1)prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. ^(C2)I have neither sent them nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a ^(C3)false vision, divination, futility, and the deception of their own ^(F1)minds.

"Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying: 'There will be no sword or famine in this land'—^(C1)by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

"And the people to whom they are prophesying will be ^(C1)thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to ^(C2)bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will ^(C3)pour out their own wickedness upon them.

-"You will say this word to them, '^(C1)Let my eyes stream down tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin ^(C2)daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely ^(C3)infected wound.

-'If I ^(C1)go out to the country, There are those killed by the sword! Or if I enter the city, There are diseases from famine! For ^(C2)both prophet and priest Have wandered around in the land that they do not know.'"