[[Jer-14]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Jer-13]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Jer-15]] --- ### When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God predicts the total destruction of the people of Judah through warfare, starvation, and disease, despite their religious rituals and fasts. *Historical context*: The fulfillment occurred during the Babylonian Siege of Jerusalem (589–587 BC) under King Nebuchadnezzar II. Historical records in [[2 Kings|2 Kings 25]] and archaeological evidence, such as the discovery of ash layers and Scythian arrowheads in Jerusalem's Iron Age levels, confirm a devastating famine and a violent conquest that decimated the population. *Related to*: ### Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn't send them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine will not be in this land.' Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God specifically targets false prophets who promised peace and safety, declaring they will die by the very calamities they claimed would not happen. *Historical context*: During the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC, the optimistic predictions of peace were proven false. While the text refers to these prophets generally, the death of the false prophet Hananiah (recorded in [[Jer|Jeremiah 28]]) serves as a specific historical example of this judgment occurring within the same era. *Related to*: ### The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them--them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A prediction that the survivors of the siege and the victims of the sword will lie unburied in the streets of the city due to the severity and scale of the disaster. *Historical context*: The Book of Lamentations, traditionally attributed to Jeremiah following the destruction of 586 BC, provides eyewitness-style accounts of this fulfillment, describing the streets filled with the dead and the breakdown of all social and burial customs due to the extreme conditions of the Babylonian conquest. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy