Jeremiah 14:2-12 (New Revised Standard)
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Judah mourns and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
3
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty. They are ashamed and dismayed and cover their heads,
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because the ground is cracked. Because there has been no rain on the land the farmers are dismayed; they cover their heads.
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Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
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The wild asses stand on the bare heights, a they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
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Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; our apostasies indeed are many, and we have sinned against you.
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O hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler turning aside for the night?
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Why should you be like someone confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot give help? Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not forsake us!
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Thus says the Lord concerning this people: Truly they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
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The Lord said to me: Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
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Although they fast, I do not hear their cry, and although they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I do not accept them; but by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence I consume them.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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