rsv Jeremiah:14:1-18
rsv@Jeremiah:14:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
rsv@Jeremiah:14:2 @ "Judah mourns and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:3 @ Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Even the hind in the field forsakes her newborn calf because there is no grass.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:6 @ The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:7 @ "Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O thou hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be like a stranger in the land, like a wayfarer who turns aside to tarry for a night?
rsv@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why shouldst thou be like a man confused, like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not."
rsv@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus says the LORD concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."
rsv@Jeremiah:14:11 @ The LORD said to me: "Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:12 @ Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."
rsv@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then I said: "Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, `You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"
rsv@Jeremiah:14:14 @ And the LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:15 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, `Sword and famine shall not come on this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them--them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:17 @ "You shall say to them this word: `Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
rsv@Jeremiah:14:18 @ If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.'"
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