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Jeremiah 14
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Chapter 14
The great drought
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The word of Yahweh that was addressed to Jeremiah on the occasion of the drought.
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‘Judah is in mourning, her towns are disconsolate, they sink to the ground; a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
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The nobles send the lesser men for water, they come to the cisterns, and find no water, and return with their pitchers empty.
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The ground refuses its yield, for the country has had no rain; in dismay the ploughmen cover their heads.[*a]
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Even the doe abandons her new-born fawn in open country, for there is no grass;
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the wild donkeys standing on the bare heights gasp for air like jackals: their eyes grow dim for lack of pasture.’
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If our crimes are witness against us, then, Yahweh, for your name’s sake act! Yes, our apostasies have been many, we have sinned against you!
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Yahweh, hope of Israel, its saviour in time of distress, why are you like a stranger in this land, like a traveller who stays only for a night?
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Why are you like someone bemused, like a warrior who has no power to rescue? Yet, Yahweh, you are in our midst, we are called by your name. Do not desert us!
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Yahweh says this regarding this people, ‘They take such pleasure in wandering, they cannot control their feet!’ But Yahweh accepts them no longer; now he recalls their crime and will punish their sins.
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Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not intercede for this people or their welfare.
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If they fast, I will not listen to their plea; if they offer holocaust and oblation, I will not accept them. Rather, I mean to exterminate them by sword, famine and pestilence.’
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‘Ah, Lord Yahweh,’ I answered ‘here are the prophets telling them, “You will not see the sword, famine will not touch you; I promise you unbroken peace in this place”.’
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Then Yahweh said to me, ‘The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I have not sent them, I gave them no orders, I never spoke to them. Delusive visions, hollow predictions, daydreams of their own, that is what they prophesy to you.
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Therefore, Yahweh says this: The prophets who prophesy in my name when I have not sent them, and tell you there will be no sword or famine in this land, these same prophets are doomed to perish by sword and famine.
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And as for the people to whom they prophesy, they will be tossed into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and the sword, with not a soul to bury them: neither them nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. I will pour down on them their own wickedness.
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‘Say this word to them, “Tears flood my eyes night and day, unceasingly, since a crushing blow falls on the daughter of my people, a most grievous injury.
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If I go into the countryside, there lie men killed by the sword; if I go into the city, I see people sick with hunger; even prophets and priests plough the land: they are at their wit’s end.”‘
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‘Have you rejected Judah altogether? Does your very soul revolt at Zion? Why have you struck us down without hope of cure? We were hoping for peace – no good came of it! For the moment of cure – nothing but terror!
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Yahweh, we do confess our wickedness and our fathers’ guilt: we have indeed sinned against you.
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For your name’s sake do not reject us, do not dishonour the throne of your glory. Remember us; do not break your covenant with us.
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Can any of the pagan Nothings make it rain? Can the heavens produce showers? No, it is you, Yahweh. O our God, you are our hope, since it is you who do all this.’
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