Jeremiah 14

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts: Judah mourns, and her gates languish;
they mourn on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem rises. Her nobles send their servants for water.
They come to the cisterns and find no water;
they return with their vessels empty.
Ashamed and humiliated, they cover their heads. Because the ground is cracked from the lack of rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads. Even the doe in the field gives birth and abandons her young, because there is no grass. The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, panting for air like jackals;
their eyes fail because there is no vegetation. Though our iniquities testify against us, LORD, act for your name’s sake.
For our apostasies are many;
we have sinned against you. Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of distress, why are you like a foreigner in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to spend the night? Why are you like a man stunned, like a warrior unable to save?
Yet you are in our midst, LORD, and we bear your name.
Do not abandon us! This is what the LORD says concerning this people: “They have loved to wander;
they have not restrained their feet.
The LORD does not accept them;
now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.” The LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the good of this people. When they fast, I will not listen to their cry;
when they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them.
Instead, I will consume them by sword, famine, and plague.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD!
Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword, and you will not have famine;
instead, I will give you true peace in this place.’” The LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name.
I did not send them or command them or speak to them.
They are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, worthless things, and the deceit of their own hearts. Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, though I did not send them, and who say, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’: By sword and famine those prophets will perish. And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword.
There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.
I will pour out their own wickedness upon them. Tell them this word: ‘Let my eyes run with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been broken by a crushing blow, a very grievous wound. If I go out to the field, look, those slain by the sword!
If I enter the city, look, those sick with famine!
For both prophet and priest wander through the land without understanding.’” Have you utterly rejected Judah?
Does your soul loathe Zion?
Why have you struck us, with no healing for us?
We looked for peace, but no good came;
for a time of healing, but there was only terror. We acknowledge our wickedness, LORD, and the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you. For your name’s sake, do not spurn us;
do not dishonor your glorious throne.
Remember your covenant with us;
do not break it. Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?
Can the heavens give showers?
Are you not the one, LORD our God?
We put our hope in you, for you have made all these things.

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