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Jeremiah 14

14 After there had been no rain in Judah for a long time, Yahweh gave me, Jeremiah, this message regarding it:

2 He said, “The people in Judah are very distressed;

the commerce that took place at the city gates has stopped.

The people of Judah are mourning because of the condition of their land,

and in all of Jerusalem people are crying loudly.

3 The rich people send their servants to wells to get water,

but when they go all the wells are dry.

The servants return with empty vessels;

so they cover their heads

because they are ashamed and disappointed.

4 The ground is extremely dry and cracked open

because there has been no rain in your land.

The farmers are very worried

so they cover their heads.

5 Even the female deer abandon their newborn babies,

because there is no grass for them to eat.

6 The wild donkeys stand on the barren hills,

panting for breath like jackals.

They strain their eyes looking for grass to eat,

but there is no edible vegetation.”

7 Then I, Jeremiah, said, “Yahweh, even though we are guilty because of our many wicked actions, please act on our behalf so that everyone can see that you are very great.

We have abandoned following you many times and have sinned against you.

8 Yahweh, you have always been the only one whom we Israelites can confidently expect to deliver us when we need help.

I wish that you would not act as though you are a stranger in our land,

and like you are someone who is traveling through and staying here for only one night!

9 I wish that you would not act like someone who is confused and like a warrior who is not able to save us!

But you, Yahweh, are here among us,

and others know that we are your people,

so do not abandon us!

10 This is what Yahweh says to the people of Judah:

“You love to wander away from me;

you run from one idol to another.

Therefore, now I will no longer accept you.

Now I will take action because of your iniquity and will punish you for your sins.”

11 Then Yahweh told me, “Do not pray that I will do good things for this people. 12 When they abstain from food I will not pay any attention to their cry. When they offer to me their offerings of animals to be completely burned on the altar and their offerings of flour, I will not accept them. Instead, I will get rid of them by wars, by famines, and by plagues.”

13 Then I replied, “Oh, Yahweh my Lord! Indeed, the prophets are telling the people that they will not experience wars or famines but will instead have lasting peace in this place.

14 Yahweh replied to me, “Those prophets say that they are speaking what I tell them to say, but they are telling lies. I did not send them or instruct them to say the things that they are prophesying and I did not speak to them. They say that they have received visions from me, and that they are telling things that I have revealed to them, but that is not true. They are saying foolish things that they have only thought of themselves. 15 Therefore Yahweh says this about those prophets who are predicting what will happen, saying that he told them those things when, in fact, he did not. They are saying, ‘We Israelites will not die from wars and famines in our land.’ But those prophets themselves will die from wars or from famines. 16 And the people to whom they are predicting these things, the corpses of those people will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because they will have died from famines and wars and there will not be anyone to bury them, they themselves or their wives or their sons or their daughters. I will punish them like they deserve to be punished.

17 So, Jeremiah, tell this to them about yourself:

‘Day and night my eyes are full of tears.

I cannot stop crying.

I cry for my people,

who are very precious to me, as if they were my daughters.

I cry for them because they are severely wounded.

18 If I go out into the fields,

I see corpses of people who have been slaughtered by our enemies.

If I walk along the streets of the city,

I see corpses of people who died from hunger.

The prophets and the priests travel through the land, preaching to people,

but they do not know what they are doing.’ ”

19 Then I prayed this:

“Yahweh, have you completely rejected the people of Judah?

Do you really despise the people of Jerusalem?

Why have you wounded us very badly,

with the result that we will never be healed?

We hoped that we would have good things come to us,

but we have not had good things.

We hoped that there would be a time when we would be healed,

but all that we received were things that terrified us.

20 Yahweh, we admit that we are wicked people,

and that our ancestors also did many wicked things.

We have all sinned against you.

21 But Yahweh, in order that people may honor you,

do not abandon us.

Do not dishonor the city where your glorious throne is.

Please pay attention to us,

and do not break your agreement with us.

22 The worthless idols of the nations certainly cannot bring rain to us

and the sky certainly cannot cause rain to fall.

Yahweh our God, you are the only one who has done things like that.

So we will confidently expect you to help us.”