Jeremiah:14-15
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth .
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Judah mourneth ,
and the gates thereof languish ;
they are black unto the ground ;
and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up .
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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters :
they came to the pits ,
and found no water ;
they returned with their vessels empty ;
they were ashamed and confounded ,
and covered their heads .
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Because the ground is chapt ,
for there was no rain in the earth ,
the plowmen were ashamed ,
they covered their heads .
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Yea ,
the hind also calved in the field ,
and forsook it ,
because there was no grass .
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And the wild asses did stand in the high places ,
they snuffed up the wind like dragons ;
their eyes did fail ,
because there was no grass .
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O LORD ,
though our iniquities testify against us ,
do thou it for thy name '
s sake :
for our backslidings are many ;
we have sinned against thee .
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O the 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 ?
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Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied ,
as a mighty man that cannot save ?
yet thou ,
O LORD ,
art in the midst of us ,
and we are called by thy name ;
leave us not .
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Thus saith the LORD unto this people ,
Thus have they loved to wander ,
they have not refrained their feet ,
therefore the LORD doth not accept them ;
he will now remember their iniquity ,
and visit their sins .
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Then said the LORD unto me ,
Pray not for this people for their good .
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When they fast ,
I will not hear their cry ;
and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation ,
I will not accept them :
but I will consume them by the sword ,
and by the famine ,
and by the pestilence .
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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 .
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Then the LORD said unto me ,
The prophets prophesy lies in my name :
I sent them not ,
neither have I commanded them ,
neither spake unto them :
they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination ,
and a thing of nought ,
and the deceit of their heart .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning 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 .
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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 wickedness upon them .
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Therefore 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 .
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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 !
yea ,
both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not .
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Hast thou utterly rejected Judah ?
hath thy soul lothed Zion ?
why hast thou smitten us ,
and there is no healing for us ?
we looked for peace ,
and there is no good ;
and for the time of healing ,
and behold trouble !
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We acknowledge ,
O LORD ,
our wickedness ,
and the iniquity of our fathers :
for we have sinned against thee .
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Do not abhor us ,
for thy name '
s sake ,
do not disgrace the throne of thy glory :
remember ,
break not thy covenant with us .
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Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain ?
or can the heavens give showers ?
art not thou he ,
O LORD our God ?
therefore we will wait upon thee :
for thou hast made all these things .
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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 .
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And it shall come to pass ,
if they say unto thee ,
Whither shall we go forth ?
then thou shalt 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 the captivity ,
to the captivity .
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And I will appoint over them four kinds ,
saith the LORD :
the sword to slay ,
and the dogs to tear ,
and the fowls of the heaven ,
and the beasts of the earth ,
to devour and destroy .
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And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth ,
because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah ,
for that which he did in Jerusalem .
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For who shall have pity upon thee ,
O Jerusalem ?
or who shall bemoan thee ?
or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest ?
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Thou hast forsaken me ,
saith the LORD ,
thou art gone backward :
therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee ,
and destroy thee ;
I am weary with repenting .
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And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land ;
I will bereave them of children ,
I will destroy my people ,
since they return not from their ways .
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Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas :
I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday :
I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly ,
and terrors upon the city .
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She that hath borne seven languisheth :
she hath given up the ghost ;
her sun is gone down while it was yet day :
she hath been ashamed and confounded :
and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies ,
saith the LORD .
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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 neither lent on usury ,
nor men have lent to me on usury ;
yet every one of them doth curse me .
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The LORD said ,
Verily it shall be well with thy remnant ;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction .
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Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel ?
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Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price ,
and that for all thy sins ,
even in all thy borders .
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And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not :
for a fire is kindled in mine anger ,
which shall burn upon you .
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O LORD ,
thou knowest :
remember me ,
and visit me ,
and revenge me of my persecutors ;
take me not away in thy longsuffering :
know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke .
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Thy words were found ,
and I did eat them ;
and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart :
for I am called by thy name ,
O LORD God of hosts .
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I sat not in the assembly of the mockers ,
nor rejoiced ;
I sat alone because of thy hand :
for thou hast filled me with indignation .
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Why is my pain perpetual ,
and my wound incurable ,
which refuseth to be healed ?
wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar ,
and as waters that fail ?
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ,
If thou return ,
then will I bring thee again ,
and thou shalt stand before me :
and if thou take forth the precious from the vile ,
thou shalt be as my mouth :
let them return unto thee ;
but return not thou unto them .
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And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen 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 .
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And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked ,
and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible .
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The word of the LORD came also unto me ,
saying ,