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Chapter
14
- 14:1
- The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth.
- 14:2
- Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- 14:3
- And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:
they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with
their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered
their heads.
- 14:4
- Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the
earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
- 14:5
- Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because
there was no grass.
- 14:6
- And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed
up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there
was no grass.
- 14:7
- O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou
it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have
sinned against thee.
- 14:8
- O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble,
why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring
man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
- 14:9
- Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man
that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us,
and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
- 14:10
- Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved
to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the
LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity,
and visit their sins.
- 14:11
- Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
their good.
- 14:12
- When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them:
but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and
by the pestilence.
- 14:13
- Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto
them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine;
but I will give you assured peace in this place.
- 14:14
- Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in
my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither
spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination,
and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
- 14:15
- Therefore thus saith the LORD 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.
- 14:16
- 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.
- 14:17
- Therefore thou shalt say this word unto 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 blow.
- 14:18
- If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with
the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that
are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go
about into a land that they know not.
- 14:19
- Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion?
why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we
looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of
healing, and behold trouble!
- 14:20
- We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity
of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
- 14:21
- Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the
throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
- 14:22
- Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can
cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he,
O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast
made all these things.
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