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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Judah mourns; her city gates languish. Her people are on the ground in mourning; Jerusalem's cry rises up. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Their nobles send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns; they find no water; their containers return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The ground is cracked since no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Even the doe in the field gives birth and abandons her fawn since there is no grass. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights panting for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there are no green plants. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Though our iniquities testify against us, LORD, act for your name's sake. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of distress, why are you like a resident alien in the land, like a traveler stopping only for the night? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Why are you like a helpless man, like a warrior unable to save? Yet you are among us, LORD, and we bear your name. Don't leave us! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10This is what the LORD says concerning these people: Truly they love to wander; they never rest their feet. So the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for the well-being of these people. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And I replied, "Oh no, Lord GOD! The prophets are telling them, 'You won't see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you lasting peace in this place.'" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But the LORD said to me, "These prophets are prophesying a lie in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit of their own minds. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"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 never be sword or famine in this land.' By sword and famine these prophets will meet their end. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them--they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for the virgin daughter of my people has been destroyed by a crushing blow, an extremely severe wound. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If I go out to the field, look--those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look--those ill from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20We acknowledge our wickedness, LORD, the iniquity of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against you. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For your name's sake, don't despise us. Don't disdain your glorious throne. Remember your covenant with us; do not break it. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are you not the LORD our God? We therefore put our hope in you, for you have done all these things. |
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