| Jer. 14:1 |
The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: |
| Jer. 14:2 |
Judah mourns, / And her gates languish; / In black they mourn on the ground, / And the cry of Jerusalem goes up. |
| Jer. 14:3 |
And their nobles send their servants for water; / They come to cisterns, / And they find no water; / They return with their vessels empty; / They are ashamed and confounded / And cover their heads. |
| Jer. 14:4 |
Because the ground is cracked, / For there has been no rain on the earth, / The farmers are ashamed; / They cover their heads. |
| Jer. 14:5 |
For even the hind in the field gives birth and abandons [its young] / Because there is no grass. |
| Jer. 14:6 |
And the wild asses stand on the bare heights; / They pant after the wind like jackals; / Their eyes fail, / For there is no herbage. |
| Jer. 14:7 |
Although our iniquities testify against us, / O Jehovah, act for Your name's sake, / For our apostasies have become many; / We have sinned against You. |
| Jer. 14:8 |
O Hope of Israel, / Its Savior in a time of distress, / Why should You be like a sojourner in the land, / Like a traveler who turns aside to lodge for the night? |
| Jer. 14:9 |
Why should You be like an astonished man, / Like a mighty man who is unable to save? / Yet You are in our midst, O Jehovah, / And we are called by Your name; / Do not leave us. |
| Jer. 14:10 |
Thus says Jehovah to this people, Even so they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore Jehovah has no delight in them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. |
| Jer. 14:11 |
And Jehovah said to me, Do not pray for the welfare of this people. |
| Jer. 14:12 |
When they fast, I will not listen to their cry; when they offer up a burnt offering and a meal offering, I will not accept them; but by sword and by famine and by pestilence I will consume them. |
| Jer. 14:13 |
And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Indeed, the prophets say to them, You will not see sword, nor will you have famine, for I will give you assured peace in this place. |
| Jer. 14:14 |
And Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy falsehood in My name; I did not send them or command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision and divination and a worthless thing and the deceit of their own heart. |
| Jer. 14:15 |
Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, although I did not send them, yet they say, A sword and famine will not be in this land: By sword and by famine those prophets will be consumed. |
| Jer. 14:16 |
And the people to whom they prophesy will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them--them, their wives, and their sons and their daughters--and I will pour out their [own] wickedness on them. |
| Jer. 14:17 |
And you shall speak this word to them, / Let my eyes run down with tears / Night and day, and let them not cease; / For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with great brokenness, / A very grievous wound. |
| Jer. 14:18 |
If I go forth into the field-- / Look, those slain by the sword; / And if I come into the city-- / Look, those diseased with famine. / For both the prophet and the priest / Will go about in a land that they do not know. |
| Jer. 14:19 |
Have You utterly rejected Judah? / Or does Your soul loathe Zion? / Why have You stricken us / So that there is no healing for us? / [We] looked for peace, but no good [came;] / And for a time of healing, but there was terror. |
| Jer. 14:20 |
We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, / The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You. |
| Jer. 14:21 |
Do not hold [us] in contempt, for Your name's sake; / Do not dishonor Your throne of glory; / Remember [and] do not break Your covenant with us. |
| Jer. 14:22 |
Are there among the vanities of the nations any that can bring rain, / Or [in] the heavens any that can give showers? / Are You not He, O Jehovah our God? / Therefore we wait for You, / For You have made all these things. |