ULT JER Chapter 14

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14 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought,

2 “Judah mourns, and her gates languish;

they mourn for the land,

and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

3 And their noble ones send out their servants for water;

they go to cisterns; they find no water;

they return with their vessels empty;

they are ashamed and confounded

and they cover their head.

4 Because the ground is dismayed, since there is not rain in the land,

the farmers are ashamed; they cover their head.

5 For even the doe in the field gives birth and abandons, because there is no grass.

6 And the wild donkeys stand on bare heights and they gasp for air like jackals.

Their eyes fail because there is no herbage.”

7 Even though our iniquities testify against us, Yahweh, act for the sake of your name.

For our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you.

8 Hope of Israel, the one saving him in the time of trouble,

Why should you be like a stranger in the land, and like one traveling who turns aside to lodge?

9 Why should you be like a man being confused, like a mighty one who is not able to save?

Yet you are in our midst, Yahweh, and your name is called over us; do not leave us!

10 Thus says Yahweh to this people: “Thus they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet.

Therefore Yahweh does not accept them.

Now he will remember their iniquity and will punish their sins.” 11 So Yahweh said to me, “Do not pray for this people for good. 12 When they fast, I will not listen to their cry, and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But by the sword and by the famine and by the plague I will consume them.”

13 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets are saying to them, ‘You shall not see sword and you shall not have famine, but peace of stability I will give to you in this place.’ ” 14 And Yahweh said to me, “The prophets are prophesying a lie in my name. I have not sent them and I have not commanded them and I have not spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a vision of a lie and divination and worthlessness and the deceitfulness of their heart. 15 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets, the ones prophesying in my name when I did not send them and they are saying, ‘Sword and famine there shall not be in this land.’ Those prophets shall perish by sword and by famine. 16 And the people to whom they are prophesying to, them shall be the ones being cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and there will be no one burying for them—they, their wives nor their sons nor their daughters. And I will pour out upon them their evil.

17 And you shall speak this word to them: ‘Let my eyes flow with tears, night and day,

and let them not cease, for with a great breaking she has been broken, the virgin daughter of my people,

with a very severe blow.

18 If I go out to the field, then behold, pierced ones of the sword,

and if I enter the city, then behold the diseases of famine,

yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land, and they know not.’ ”

19 Have rejecting you rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion?

Why have you stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was no good,

and for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

20 We know, Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.

21 For the sake of your name do not spurn us; do not disgrace the throne of your glory.

Remember, do not break your covenant with us.

22 Are there any among the idols of the nations who can bring rain or can the heavens give showers?

Are you not he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you, since you have done all these.