Jeremiah 14:1-10 ▼

1 The word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts:

2 “Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they mourn for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their young for water; they went to the cisterns, they did not find water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, and they covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain in the land, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.

5 Indeed, even the doe in the field has brought forth—to forsake it because there is no grass.

6 And the wild donkeys stand on the barren heights; they pant for the wind like jackals, and their eyes fail because there is no grass.”

7 Though our iniquities testify against us, O YHWH, may You act for the sake of Your name! For many are our backslidings; we have sinned against You.

8 O Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of distress, why should You be like a sojourner in the land, and like a traveler who stretches aside to spend the night.

9 Why should You be like a man astonished, like a mighty one not able to save? And You are among us, O YHWH, and we are called by Your name; do not leave us.

10 Thus says YHWH to this people: “Thus have they loved to wander, they have not held back their feet, and YHWH has not accepted them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”