Jeremiah 14:1-10 - The Severe Drought

¹ The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

² Judah mourns;
her gates languish.
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.
³ Their nobles send their servants for water.
They go to the cisterns;
they find no water;
their containers return empty.
They are ashamed and humiliated;
they cover their heads.
⁴ The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
⁵ Even the doe in the field
gives birth and abandons her fawn
since there is no grass.
⁶ Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights
panting for air like jackals.
Their eyes fail
because there are no green plants.
⁷ Though our guilt testifies against us,
Yahweh, act for Your name’s sake.
Indeed, our rebellions are many;
we have sinned against You.
⁸ Hope of Israel,
its Savior in time of distress,
why are You like a foreigner in the land,
like a traveler stopping only for the night?
⁹ Why are You like a helpless man,
like a warrior unable to save?
Yet You are among us, Yahweh,
and we are called by Your name.
Don’t leave us!

¹⁰ This is what the Lord says concerning these people:

Truly they love to wander;
they never rest their feet.
So the Lord does not accept them.
Now He will remember their guilt
and punish their sins.