Chapter Fourteen The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
Yea, the hind also carved in the field, and forsook it because there was no grass.
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like
dragons, their eyes did veil because there was no grass.
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.
O the hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble, Why shouldst thou be
as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry
for a night?
Why shouldst 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, thus saith the Lord unto this people.
Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet,
Therefore the Lord does not accept them.
He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.
Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
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.
Then said I, Our 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.
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 naught,
and the deceit of their heart.
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.
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.
But I will pour their wickedness upon them.
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.
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.
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?
Hath thy soul loathed Zion?
Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us?
We look for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of healing, and behold,
trouble.
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have
sinned against thee.
Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake.
Do not disgrace the throne of thy glory.
Remember, break not thy covenant with us.
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.