Jeremiah 14:12-15

12Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, ^aand though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them ^bby the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Lying Prophets

13Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets ^csay to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” 14And the Lord said to me: “The ^dprophets are prophesying lies in my name. ^eI did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, ^fworthless divination, and ^gthe deceit of their own minds. 15Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although ^hI did not send them, and who say, ⁱ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: ^jBy sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

Jeremiah 15:1-3

The Lord Will Not Relent

1Then the Lord said to me, ^k“Though ^lMoses ^mand Samuel ⁿstood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! 2And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

^o“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
3 ^pI will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and ^qthe birds of the air ^rand the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4

4 ^sThey shall die of deadly diseases. ^tThey shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. ^uThey shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. ^vThey shall perish by the sword and by famine, ^wand their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 24:10

10And I will send ^xsword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”

Jeremiah 52:6

6On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 2:21-22

21 In the dust of the streets
^ylie the young and the old;
^zmy young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
^aayou have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering ^abwithout pity.
22 You summoned as if to ^aca festival day
^admy terrors on every side,
^aeand on the day of the anger of the Lord
no one escaped or survived;
^afthose whom I held and raised
my enemy destroyed.

Lamentations 4:3-10

3 Even jackals offer the breast;
they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the nursing infant ^agsticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
^ahthe children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
^aithose who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6 ^ajFor the chastisement ▼

▼Or iniquity

of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment ▼

▼Or sin

of Sodom,
^amwhich was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her. ▼

▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

7 Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their form ▼

▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

was like sapphire. ▼

▼Hebrew lapis lazuli

8 ^aqNow their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 ^arThe hands of ^ascompassionate women
^athave boiled their own children;
^authey became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 14:21

21“For thus says the Lord God: How much more ^avwhen I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, ^awsword, ^axfamine, ^aywild beasts, and ^azpestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!