Jeremiah 14:16
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And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
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So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”
For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?