Drought and a Prayer for Mercy
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“For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young,
Because there is (L)no grass.
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Because there is (L)no grass.
10 Thus says the Lord to this people, “Even so they have (Y)loved to wander; they have not (Z)kept their feet in check. Therefore the Lord does (AA)not accept them; now He will (AB)remember their iniquity and call their sins to account.”
11 So the Lord said to me, “(AC)Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
12 When they fast, I am (AD)not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer (AE)burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to (AF)make an end of them by the (AG)sword, famine and pestilence.”
False Prophets
13 But, “Ah, Lord (c)God!” I said, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You (AH)will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you (d)lasting (AI)peace in this place.’”
14 Then the Lord said to me, “The (AJ)prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. (AK)I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a (AL)false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own (e)minds.
15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—(AM)by sword and famine those prophets shall (f)meet their end!
16 The people also to whom they are prophesying will be (AN)thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to (AO)bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will (AP)pour out their own wickedness on them.
Footnotes:
a.
Jeremiah 14:3: ['Lit ', little ones]
b.
Jeremiah 14:4: ['Lit ', shattered]
c.
Jeremiah 14:13: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord]
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Jeremiah 14:13: ['Lit ', peace of truth]
e.
Jeremiah 14:14: ['Lit ', hearts]
f.
Jeremiah 14:15: ['Lit ', be finished]
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Jeremiah 14:18: ['Lit ', pierced]
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Jeremiah 14:18: ['Or ', gone around trading]
i.
Jeremiah 14:19: ['Lit ', Your soul]
j.
Jeremiah 14:22: ['Lit ', vanities]
k.
Jeremiah 14:22: ['Or ', wait for]