Jeremías 14:13-22

13 Y yo dije: ¡Ah, Señor DIOS! He aquí, los profetas les dicen: "No veréis espada ni tendréis hambre, sino que os daré paz verdadera en este lugar."

14 Entonces el SEÑOR me dijo: Mentira profetizan los profetas en mi nombre. Yo no los he enviado, ni les he dado órdenes, ni les he hablado; visión falsa, adivinación, vanidad y engaño de sus corazones ellos os profetizan.

15 Por tanto, así dice el SEÑOR: En cuanto a los profetas que profetizan en mi nombre sin que yo los haya enviado, y que dicen: "No habrá espada ni hambre en esta tierra", a espada y de hambre esos profetas perecerán.

16 También el pueblo a quien profetizan estará tirado por las calles de Jerusalén a causa del hambre y de la espada; no habrá quien los entierre a ellos, ni a sus mujeres, ni a sus hijos, ni a sus hijas, pues derramaré sobre ellos su maldad.

17 Y les dirás esta palabra: "Viertan lágrimas mis ojos noche y día, y no cesen, porque de gran quebranto ha sido quebrantada la virgen hija de mi pueblo, de una dolorosa herida muy grave.

18 "Si salgo al campo, he aquí, muertos a espada; y si entro en la ciudad, he aquí, enfermedades por el hambre. Porque tanto el profeta como el sacerdote andan errantes en una tierra que no conocen."

19 ¿Has desechado por completo a Judá, o ha aborrecido tu alma a Sion? ¿Por qué nos has herido sin que haya curación para nosotros? Esperábamos paz, y no hubo bien alguno; tiempo de curación, y he aquí, terror.

20 Reconocemos, oh SEÑOR, nuestra impiedad, la iniquidad de nuestros padres, pues hemos pecado contra ti.

21 No nos desprecies, por amor a tu nombre, no deshonres el trono de tu gloria; acuérdate, no anules tu pacto con nosotros.

22 ¿Hay entre los ídolos de las naciones alguno que haga llover? ¿O pueden los cielos solos dar lluvia? ¿No eres tú, oh SEÑOR, nuestro Dios? En ti, pues, esperamos, porque tú has hecho todas estas cosas.

Jeremías 14:13-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 14

This chapter contains prophecy of a drought, which produced a famine, Jer 14:1, and is described by the dismal effects of it; and general distress in the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer 14:2, even the nobles were affected with it, whose servants returned without water ashamed, when sent for it, Jer 14:3, the ploughmen could not use their plough, their ground was so hard, Jer 14:4 and the very beasts of the field suffered much, because there was no grass, Jer 14:5,6, upon this follows a prayer of the prophet to the Lord, that he would give rain for his name's sake; he confesses the sins of the people, that they were many, and against the Lord; and testified against them, that they deserved to be used as they were; and he addresses the Lord as the hope and Saviour of his people in time past, when it was a time of trouble with them; and expostulates with him, why he should be as a stranger and traveller, and like a mighty man astonished, that either had no regard to their land any more than a foreigner and a traveller; or no heart to help them, or exert his power, than a man at his wits' end, though he was among them, and they were called by his name; and therefore he begs he would not leave them, Jer 14:7-9, but he is told that it was for the sins of the people that all this was, which the Lord was determined to remember and visit; and therefore he is bid not to pray for them; if he did, it would not be regarded, nor the people's fasting and prayers also; for they should be consumed by the sword, famine, and pestilence, Jer 14:10-12, and though the prophet pleads, in excuse of the people, that the false prophets had deceived them; yet not only the vanity and falsehood of their prophecies are exposed, and they are threatened with destruction, but the people also, for hearkening unto them, Jer 14:13-16, wherefore the prophet, instead of putting up a prayer for them, has a lamentation dictated to him by the Lord, which he is ordered to express, Jer 14:17,18, and yet, notwithstanding this, he goes on to pray for them in a very pathetic manner; he expostulates with God, and pleads for help and healing; confesses the iniquities of the people; entreats the Lord, for the sake of his name, glory, and covenant, that he would not reject them and his petition; and observes, that the thing asked for (rain) was what none of the gods of the Heathens could give, or even the heavens themselves, only the Lord; and therefore determines to wait upon him for it, who made the heavens, the earth, and rain, Jer 14:19-22.