Jeremiah 14

¹The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

²Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

³And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.

⁴Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.

⁵Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass.

⁶And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

⁷Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name’s sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

⁸O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

⁹Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

¹⁰Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

¹¹And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.