mkjv - Jeremiah:14:1-15:21

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

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:2 @ Judah mourns, and its gates droop. They are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:3 @ And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters; they came to the cisterns, [and] found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because the ground was cracked, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Yea, the doe also calved in the field and forsook [it], because [there was] no grass.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:6 @ And the wild asses stood in the high places; they snuffed up the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because [there was] no grass.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:7 @ O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveler turning in to lodge?

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why should You be as a man stunned, as one mighty, [yet] who cannot save? Yet You, O LORD, [are] in our midst, and we are called by Your name. Do not leave us!

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:10 @ So says the LORD to this people; So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:11 @ Then the LORD said to me, Do not pray for this people for good.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:12 @ When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then I said, Ah, O Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets are saying to them, You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine; but I will give you true peace in this place.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:14 @ And the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a false vision and a worthless divination, and a thing of no value, and the deceit of their heart.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:15 @ So the LORD says this concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I did not send them; yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

mkjv@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, [either] them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour their evil on them.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:17 @ And you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, [with] a very grievous blow.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:18 @ If I go out into the field, then I see those killed with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, sicknesses of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone up into a land that they do not know.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Have You utterly rejected Judah? Or has Your soul hated Zion? Why have You stricken us, and [there is] no healing for us? [We] looked for peace, but no good [came]; and for the time of healing, and behold, trouble!

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

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:21 @ Do not abhor [us] for Your name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.

mkjv@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there [any] among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? [Is] it not You, O LORD our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul [could] not [be] toward this people. Send [them] out of My sight, and let them go out.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And it will be, if they say to you, Where shall we go? Then you shall tell them, So says the LORD: Those who [are] for death, go to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:3 @ And I will set over them four kinds, says the LORD; the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will make them a horror to all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:5 @ For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who shall weep over you? Or who shall turn aside to ask your welfare?

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:6 @ You have forsaken Me, says the LORD; you have gone backward; therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:7 @ And I will winnow them with a fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of sons; I will destroy My people, since they do not turn from their ways.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:8 @ Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas; I have brought on them, against a mother of a young man, a ravager at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She who bore seven languishes; she has breathed out her life; her sun has gone down while [it was] yet day. She has been ashamed and humiliated; and I will deliver the rest of them to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:10 @ Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not loaned, nor have men loaned to me; [yet] every one curses me.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:11 @ The LORD said, Truly I will free you for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:12 @ Can one break iron, iron or bronze from the north?

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:13 @ Your wealth and your treasures I will give for prey, not for price, [but] for all your sins, even in all your borders.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:14 @ And I will make [you] pass with your enemies into a land [which] you do not know. For a fire has been kindled in My anger; it shall burn against you.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:15 @ O LORD, You know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on those who seek to hurt me. Do not take me away in Your long-suffering; know that for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:16 @ Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I did not sit in the circle of mockers, nor rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why has my pain been without end, and why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that cannot be trusted.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore so says the LORD, If you turn back, then I will bring you again; you shall stand before Me. And if you take the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth. Let them turn back to you, but do not return to them.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not overcome you; for I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.

mkjv@Jeremiah:15:21 @ And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the evil ones.