Jer 14
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The word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
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Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and
the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
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And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns,
and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and
confounded, and cover their heads.
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Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain has been in the land, the
plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.
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Yea, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is
no grass.
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And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their
eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
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Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name`s sake, O YHWH; for
our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
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O you hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why should you be
as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry for a
night?
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Why should you be as a man frightened, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet you,
O YHWH, art in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not.
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Thus says YHWH to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained
their feet: therefore YHWH does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity,
and visit their sins.
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And YHWH said to me, Pray not for this people for [their] good.
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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, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence.
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Then said I, Ah, Lord YHWH! behold, the prophets say to them, You shall not see the
sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
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Then YHWH said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither
have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision,
and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
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Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent
them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine
shall those prophets be consumed.
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And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem
because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their
wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon
them.
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And you shall say this word to them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great
breach, with a very grievous wound.
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If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter
into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet
and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
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Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you smitten
us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for
a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
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We acknowledge, O YHWH, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have
sinned against you.
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Do not abhor [us], for your name`s sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory:
remember, break not your covenant with us.
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Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens
give showers? art not you he, O YHWH our God? therefore we will wait for you; for
you have made all these things.