Jeremiah 14 ~ 15

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14:1The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: Compare
14:2Judah mourns, / And her gates languish; / In black they mourn on the ground, / And the cry of Jerusalem goes up. Compare
14:3And 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. Compare
14:4Because the ground is cracked, / For there has been no rain on the earth, / The farmers are ashamed; / They cover their heads. Compare
14:5For even the hind in the field gives birth and abandons its young / Because there is no grass. Compare
14:6And the wild asses stand on the bare heights; / They pant after the wind like jackals; / Their eyes fail, / For there is no herbage. Compare
14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, / O Jehovah, act for Your name's sake, / For our apostasies have become many; / We have sinned against You. Compare
14:8O 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? Compare
14:9Why 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. Compare
14:10Thus 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. Compare
14:11And Jehovah said to me, Do not pray for the welfare of this people. Compare
14:12When 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. Compare
14:13And 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. Compare
14:14And 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. Compare
14:15Therefore 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. Compare
14:16And 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. Compare
14:17And 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. Compare
14:18If 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. Compare
14:19Have 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. Compare
14:20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, / The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You. Compare
14:21Do 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. Compare
14:22Are 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. Compare
15:1And Jehovah said to me, Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My soul would not turn toward this people. Send them out of My sight and let them go. Compare
15:2And when they say to you, Where shall we go? Then you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, Those who are for death to death, / And those who are for the sword to the sword, / And those who are for famine to famine, / And those who are for captivity to captivity. Compare
15:3And I will visit them with four kinds of punishment, declares Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. Compare
15:4And I will make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. Compare
15:5For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, / And who will lament for you; / And who will turn aside to ask / After your welfare? Compare
15:6You have forsaken Me, / Declares Jehovah. / You keep going backward, / And I have stretched out My hand against you / And have destroyed you; / I have become weary of repenting. Compare
15:7And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork / In the gates of the land; / I have bereaved them of children / And destroyed My people; / They have not turned back from their ways. Compare
15:8Their widows have increased before Me / More than the sand of the seas; / I have brought to them, / Against the mother of the young men, / A spoiler at noon; / I have caused anguish and terror / To fall on her suddenly. Compare
15:9She who has borne seven languishes; / She has breathed out her life. / Her sun has gone down while it is still day; / She is put to shame and confounded. / And the rest of them I will give up to the sword / Before their enemies, / Declares Jehovah. Compare

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