jps - Jeremiah:14:1-15:21

jps@Jeremiah:14:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.

jps@Jeremiah:14:2 @ Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they bow down in black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

jps@Jeremiah:14:3 @ And their nobles send their lads for water: they come to the pits, and find no water; their vessels return empty; they are ashamed and confounded, and cover their heads.

jps@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because of the ground which is cracked, for there hath been no rain in the land, the plowmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.

jps@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass,

jps@Jeremiah:14:6 @ And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

jps@Jeremiah:14:7 @ Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, work Thou for Thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against Thee.

jps@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O Thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest Thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

jps@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet Thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and Thy name is called upon us; leave us not.

jps@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus saith the LORD unto this people: Even so have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet; therefore the LORD doth not accept them, now will He remember their iniquity, and punish their sins.

jps@Jeremiah:14:11 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Pray not for this people for their good.

jps@Jeremiah:14:12 @ When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.'

jps@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then said I: 'Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them: Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'

jps@Jeremiah:14:14 @ Then the LORD said unto me: 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.

jps@Jeremiah:14:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD: As for the prophets that prophesy in My name, and I sent them not, yet they say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land, by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed;

jps@Jeremiah:14:16 @ and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters; for I will pour their evil upon them.'

jps@Jeremiah:14:17 @ And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

jps@Jeremiah:14:18 @ If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest are gone about to a land, and knew it not.

jps@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath Thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast Thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold terror!

jps@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, even the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against Thee.

jps@Jeremiah:14:21 @ Do not contemn us, for Thy name's sake, do not dishonour the throne of Thy glory; remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

jps@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee? For Thou hast made all these things.

jps@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then said the LORD unto me: 'Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be toward this people; cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

jps@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee: Whither shall we go forth? then thou shall tell them: Thus saith the LORD: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

jps@Jeremiah:15:3 @ And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

jps@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will cause them to be a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

jps@Jeremiah:15:5 @ For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? Or who shall bemoan thee? Or who shall turn aside to ask of thy welfare?

jps@Jeremiah:15:6 @ Thou hast cast Me off, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward; Therefore do I stretch out My hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

jps@Jeremiah:15:7 @ And I fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I bereave them of children, I destroy My people, since they return not from their ways.

jps@Jeremiah:15:8 @ Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of the seas; I bring upon them, against the mother, a chosen one, even a spoiler at noonday; I cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

jps@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She that hath borne seven languisheth; her spirit droopeth; her sun is gone down while it was yet day, she is ashamed and confounded; and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.'

jps@Jeremiah:15:10 @ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.

jps@Jeremiah:15:11 @ The LORD said: 'Verily I will release thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

jps@Jeremiah:15:12 @ Can iron break iron from the north and brass?

jps@Jeremiah:15:13 @ Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

jps@Jeremiah:15:14 @ And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in My nostril, which shall burn upon you.'

jps@Jeremiah:15:15 @ Thou, O LORD, knowest; Remember me, and think of me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away because of Thy long-suffering; know that for Thy sake I have suffered taunts.

jps@Jeremiah:15:16 @ Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart; because Thy name was called on me, O LORD God of hosts.

jps@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand; for Thou hast filled me with indignation.

jps@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed? Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?

jps@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD: If thou return, and I bring thee back, thou shalt stand before Me; and if thou bring forth the precious out of the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth; let them return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.

jps@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:15:21 @ And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.