| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah in regard to the drought: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Judah mourns And her gates languish; They sit on the ground in mourning, And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Their nobles have sent their servants for water; They have come to the cisterns and found no water. They have returned with their vessels empty; They have been put to shame and humiliated, And they cover their heads. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Because the ground is cracked, For there has been no rain on the land; The farmers have been put to shame, They have covered their heads. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young, Because there is no grass. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail For there is no vegetation. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for Your name's sake! Truly our apostasies have been many, We have sinned against You. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"O Hope of Israel, Its Savior in time of distress, Why are You like a stranger in the land Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Why are You like a man dismayed, Like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet You are in our midst, O LORD, And we are called by Your name; Do not forsake us!" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Thus says the LORD to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for the welfare of this people. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But, "Ah, Lord GOD!" I said, "Look, the prophets are telling them, 'You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.'" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them-- yet they keep saying, 'There will be no sword or famine in this land '-- by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them-- neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters-- for I will pour out their own wickedness on them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"You will say this word to them, 'Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely infected wound. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18'If I go out to the country, Behold, those slain with the sword! Or if I enter the city, Behold, diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest Have gone roving about in the land that they do not know.'" |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Have You completely rejected Judah? Or have You loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We waited for peace, but nothing good came; And for a time of healing, but behold, terror! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20We know our wickedness, O LORD, The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Do not despise us, for Your own name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens grant showers? Is it not You, O LORD our God? Therefore we hope in You, For You are the one who has done all these things. |
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