Lamentations 2:14 meaning and explanation
The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
Lamentations 2:14, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, voicing Jerusalem's grief after the Babylonians destroyed the city and temple in 586 BC. Addressing the fallen city directly, he indicts her prophets: their visions were empty and deceptive, and they failed to expose her guilt, which might have turned her back and averted exile.
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