empty and misleading

Lamentations 2:13-14 (JDV)

Lamentations 2:13 What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?
Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets saw visions for you that were empty and deceptive; they did not reveal your iniquity and so restore your fortunes. They saw pronouncements for you that were empty and misleading.

empty and misleading

What a condemnation for those prophets. They had been responsible for speaking God’s word to God’s people, but they chose to see only empty and misleading stuff. They gave their people memes instead of maturity, vanity instead of virtue, triviality instead of truth.

Lord, we wait on you for a word for our time. We want your truth for your people, regardless of the price we may have to pay for that truth.