Jeremiah:14:1-15:21
noyes@Jeremiah:14:1 @ The word of Jehovah, which came to Jeremiah concerning a drought.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:2 @ Judah mourneth, And the gates thereof languish; They are in deep mourning upon the ground. And the cry of Jerusalem goeth up.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:3 @ The nobles send their younger ones for water; They come to the wells, they find none; They return with their vessels empty; They are ashamed and confounded; They cover their heads.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because of the ground, which is in consternation, No rain falling upon the earth, The husbandmen are ashamed, They hide their heads.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Even the hind in the field is delivered, And deserteth her young, Because there is no grass.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:6 @ The wild asses stand upon the hills, They snuff up the wind like jackals; Their eyes fail, Because there is no grass.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:7 @ Though our iniquities testify against us, Yet do thou, O Jehovah, act from a regard to thine own name. For our transgressions have been many; We have sinned against thee.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O thou hope of Israel, His saviour in the time of trouble, Why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, As a traveller who spreadeth his tent to pass the night?
noyes@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why wilt thou be as a man that is amazed, As a hero that cannot save? Thou art in the midst of us, O Jehovah, And we are called by thy name; Do not forsake us!
noyes@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus saith Jehovah concerning this people: Thus they love to wander, They restrain not their feet; Therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; Now will he remember their iniquities, And punish their sins.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:11 @ Then said Jehovah to me: Pray not for this people for their good!
noyes@Jeremiah:14:12 @ Though they fast, I will not hear their cry; Though they offer burntofferings and flourofferings, I will not accept them; But by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence, I will make an end of them.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then said I, Alas! O Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say to them, "Ye shall not see the sword, Nor shall famine come upon you; But Jehovah will give you lasting peace in this place."
noyes@Jeremiah:14:14 @ Then said Jehovah to me: The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I have not sent them, nor commissioned them, nor spoken to them; A false vision, and divination, and vanity, And the fraud of their hearts, do they prophesy to you.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:15 @ Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets Who prophesy in my name, though I sent them not, But who themselves say, "The sword and famine shall not be in this land": By the sword and by famine shall those prophets be consumed.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whom they prophesy Shall be cast forth in the streets of Jerusalem By means of famine and the sword; And they shall have none to bury them,They, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters; For I will pour their wickedness upon them.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:17 @ Thus also shalt thou speak to them: My eyes shall run down with tears night and day; They shall not cease; For a deep wound hath she received, The virgin daughter of my people, A deadly blow.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:18 @ If I go forth into the fields, Then behold them that are slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold them that pine with famine! Both prophet and priest wander about the land, they know not whither.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul abhor Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, so that there is no healing for us! We look for peace, and there is no good, For a time of healing, and behold, terror!
noyes@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, And the iniquity of our fathers; For we have sinned against thee.
noyes@Jeremiah:14:21 @ Do not spurn us, for thy names sake! Do not dishonor thy glorious throne! Call to mind, break not, thy covenant with us!
noyes@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there among the vanities of the nations any that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O Jehovah, our God? Therefore in thee will we trust, For thou hast made all these things!
noyes@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then said Jehovah to me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before me, Yet would I not be reconciled to this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go forth!
noyes@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And if they say to thee, "Whither shall we go forth?" Then say thou to them, Thus saith Jehovah: They that are for the pestilence, to the pestilence, And they that are for the sword, to the sword. And they that are for famine, to famine, And they that are for captivity, to captivity.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:3 @ I will commission against them four woes, saith Jehovah! The sword to slay, And the dogs to drag about, And the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth, To devour and destroy.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:4 @ I will cause them to be harassed in all the kingdoms of the earth, On account of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, On account of all which he did in Jerusalem.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:5 @ For who will have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? Or who condole with thee? Or who turn aside to ask thee of thy welfare?
noyes@Jeremiah:15:6 @ Thou hast forsaken me, saith Jehovah; Thou hast gone backward; Therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary of relenting.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:7 @ I will scatter them with a winnowingfan through the gates of the land; I will bereave them of their sons; I will destroy my people, Since they return not from their ways.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:8 @ Their widows shall be more numerous than the sand of the sea; Against the mother of the young men do I bring a spoiler at noonday; Suddenly will I bring alarm and terrors upon them.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She, that hath borne seven, languisheth; She is ready to expire; Her sun goeth down while it is yet day; She is ashamed and confounded. Their remnant will I also give to the sword Before their enemies, saith Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:10 @ Alas for me, my mother, that thou hast borne me, To live in strife and contention with all the land! I have neither borrowed nor lent money, Yet doth every one curse me!
noyes@Jeremiah:15:11 @ Jehovah said: Surely I will deliver and prosper thee, Surely, in the time of trouble and in the time of distress, Will I cause the adversary to be a suppliant to thee.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:12 @ Who is able to break iron, Iron from the North, and brass?
noyes@Jeremiah:15:13 @ Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for spoil, without price, On account of all thy sins in all thy borders.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:14 @ I will cause them to pass with thy enemies into a land which thou knowest not; For a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn against you.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:15 @ Thou, O Jehovah, knowest all my concerns! O remember me, and have regard to me, And revenge me of my persecutors! Do not, through thy longsuffering, take me away! Consider that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke!
noyes@Jeremiah:15:16 @ As soon as I found thy words, I devoured them; For thy words were the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts!
noyes@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I have not sat in the assembly of them that made merry, nor rejoiced; On account of thy hand I have sat alone; For thou hast filled me with indignation.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain perpetual, And my wound mortal, refusing to be healed? Thou hast been to me like a deceitful stream; Like waters that fail.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Then answered Jehovah thus: If thou wilt return, then will I restore thee, and thou shalt stand before me; And if thou wilt separate the precious from the vile, Thou shalt be as my mouth. They shall turn to thee, And thou shalt not turn to them.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:20 @ I will make thee against this people a strong wall of brass; When they war against thee, they shall not prevail against thee, For I will be with thee to save thee, And to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:15:21 @ I will rescue thee from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem thee from the grasp of the violent.
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