Jeremiah 5 Footnotes

5:30-31 Jeremiah saw a “horrible thing” in the land. The sources of divine revelation had become corrupted; neither prophets nor priests were giving words that came from the Lord, but only their own ideas. Even worse, the people liked it that way and shared in the guilt of their leaders. They would have no recourse when the Lord’s judgment came “at the end of it” (6:16-17; 29:31-32; see note on Lm 1:5).