Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
This
is
the word of the
LORD
that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought :
The word of Yahweh
that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought .
“
Judah mourns and her
gates languish .
Her
people
wail
for
the
land
, and a
cry goes
up
from
Jerusalem.
Judah mourns ,
and the
gates of
it
languish, they
sit
in
black
on
the
ground;
and the
cry of
Jerusalem is
gone
up
.
The
nobles send their servants
for
water;
they go
to the cisterns, but
find no water; their
jars
return empty .
They are ashamed
and humiliated;
they
cover their heads.
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 disappointed
and confounded,
and
cover their heads.
The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen
on
the land .
The farmers
are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
Because
of
the ground which
is cracked ,
because no rain has been
in
the land ,
the plowmen
are disappointed,
they cover their heads.
Even
the doe
in the field deserts
her newborn
fawn
because there is no grass.
Yes,
the hind
also
in the field calves,
and
forsakes
[
her young],
because there is no grass.
Wild donkeys stand on barren
heights ;
they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for
lack
of
pasture
. ”
The
wild donkeys stand on the
bare
heights ,
they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail ,
because
there
is
no
herbage
.
Although
our iniquities testify against us, O
LORD,
act
for the
sake
of
Your name.
Indeed
, our rebellions
are many; we have sinned against You.
Though
our iniquities testify against us, work
you
for your name's
sake
, Yahweh;
for
our backslidings
are many; we have sinned against you.
O
Hope of Israel, its
Savior in times
of distress
, why are
You like
a stranger
in the land, like
a traveler
who stays
but
a night?
You
hope of Israel, the
Savior of
it
in the
time
of trouble
, why should
you be
as
a foreigner
in the land, and
as
a wayfaring
man
who turns
aside
to
stay
for
a night?
Why are
You like a man taken
by
surprise
, like
a warrior
powerless
to
save? Yet You are among
us, O
LORD,
and we are called by Your name .
Do
not
forsake
us !
Why should
you be
like a scared
man, as
a mighty
man
who
can't
save? yet you ,
Yahweh,
are in
the
midst
of
us, and we are called by your name ;
don't
leave
us .
This
is
what
the
LORD
says about
this people :
“Truly
they love
to wander; they have not restrained
their feet .
So
the
LORD
does not accept them; He
will
now remember their guilt
and call
their sins to
account
. ”
Thus
says Yahweh
to
this people ,
Even
so
have
they loved
to wander; they have not refrained
their feet :
therefore
Yahweh
does not accept them; now will
he
remember their iniquity,
and visit
their sins.
Then
the
LORD
said to me, “Do
not
pray for the
well-being
of
this people.
Yahweh
said to me, Don't
pray for this people for
[their]
good
.
Although
they may
fast, I will not listen
to
their cry; although
they may
offer burnt offerings
and grain
offerings
, I will not accept them .
Instead,
I will finish
them off
by sword and famine and plague
. ”
When
they fast, I will not hear
their cry; and
when
they offer burnt offering
and meal-offering
, I will not accept them ;
but
I will consume
them by the
sword ,
and by
the
famine ,
and by
the
pestilence
.
“
Ah, Lord GOD
! ”
I
replied,
“Look
, the prophets are
telling
them, ‘
You will
not see the sword or
suffer
famine
, but I will give you lasting
peace in this place. ’”
Then
said
I,
Ah, Lord Yahweh
! behold
, the prophets tell
them, You shall
not see the sword, neither
shall
you
have
famine;
but I will give you assured
peace in this place.
“
The prophets are
prophesying
lies in My name ,”
replied
the
LORD.
“
I did
not
send them or
appoint
them or
speak
to them .
They are
prophesying
to you a false
vision, a
worthless
divination, the
futility
and delusion
of their own minds
.
Then
Yahweh
said
to
me,
The prophets prophesy
lies in my name ;
I didn't
send them ,
neither
have
I
commanded
them ,
neither
spoke
I
to them :
they prophesy
to you a lying
vision, and
divination, and a
thing
of nothing,
and
the
deceit
of
their own heart
.
Therefore this
is
what
the
LORD
says about
the prophets who prophesy in My name :
I did
not
send them, yet they say, ‘No
sword or
famine will
touch
this land .’
By sword and famine these
very
prophets will
meet
their
end!
Therefore thus
says Yahweh
concerning
the prophets who prophesy in my name ,
and
I didn't
send them, yet they say, Sword and
famine shall
not
be
in
this land :
By sword and famine shall
those
prophets be
consumed.
And
the people to whom they prophesy will
be thrown
into
the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword .
There
will
be
no
one
to bury them or
their wives, their sons or
their daughters .
I will pour out
their own
evil
upon
them.
The people to whom they prophesy shall
be cast
out
in
the streets of Jerusalem because of the
famine and the
sword ;
and
they
shall
have
none
to bury them -them,
their wives, nor
their sons ,
nor
their daughters :
for
I will pour their wickedness
on
them.
You are
to
speak
this word to them :
‘
My eyes overflow
with tears ;
day and night
they
do
not cease ,
for the virgin daughter of my people has
been
shattered
by
a crushing
blow
, a severely
grievous wound.
You shall
say
this word to them ,
Let
my eyes run
down
with tears night
and
day ,
and let
them
not cease ;
for the virgin daughter of my people is
broken
with
a great
breach
, with
a very
grievous wound.
If I go out
to
the country
, I
see
those
slain by
the sword ;
if I enter the city, I
see
those ravaged
by
famine! For both prophet and priest travel
to
a
land they
do
not
know
. ’”
If I go forth
into
the field
, then,
behold,
the
slain with
the sword !
and
if I enter into
the city, then,
behold,
those who
are
sick
with
famine! for both the
prophet and the
priest go
about
in
the
land ,
and
have
no
knowledge
.
Have You rejected Judah completely
? Do
You
despise
Zion? Why have You stricken
us so
that
we
are
beyond
healing? We hoped
for peace, but no good has
come,
and for the
time of healing, but
there
was
only
terror.
Have you utterly
rejected Judah? has
your
soul
loathed
Zion? why have you struck
us ,
and
there
is
no
healing for
us
? We looked
for peace, but no good came;
and for a
time of healing, and,
behold,
dismay!
We acknowledge our wickedness, O
LORD,
the guilt
of our fathers; indeed,
we have sinned against You.
We acknowledge ,
Yahweh,
our wickedness, and
the iniquity
of our fathers; for
we have sinned against you.
For
the
sake
of
Your
name
do not despise
us; do not disgrace Your
glorious
throne .
Remember Your covenant with us ;
do
not
break
it
.
Do not abhor
[
us ],
for
your
name's
sake
; do not disgrace the
throne of
your
glory:
remember ,
don't
break
your covenant with us.
Can
the worthless
idols
of the nations bring
rain? Do
the skies
alone
send
showers? Is
this
not
by
You, O
LORD
our God? So
we put
our
hope
in
You ,
for You have done
all these things.
Are
there
any
among
the vanities
of the nations that
can
cause
rain? or
can
the sky
give
showers? Aren't
you he
, Yahweh
our God? therefore
we will
wait
for
you ;
for you have made
all these things.
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