Sword, Famine, and Pestilence
And aher gates languish;
They bmourn for the land,
And cthe cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
They went to the cisterns and found no water.
They returned with their vessels empty;
They were aashamed and confounded
bAnd covered their heads.
For there was ano rain in the land,
The plowmen were ashamed;
They covered their heads.
They sniffed at the wind like jackals;
Their eyes failed because there was no grass.”
Do it afor Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.
Why should You be like a stranger in the land,
And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
Like a mighty one awho cannot save?
Yet You, O Lord, bare in our midst,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not leave us!
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Jeremiah 14:1
The word - that came - concerning the dearth - This discourse is supposed to have been delivered, after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Concerning the dearth. We have no historic record of any dearth that may fall in with the time of this prophecy, and perhaps it does not refer to any particular dearth: but this was a calamity to which Judea was very liable. They had ordinarily very dry summers, for scarcely any rain fell from April to the middle of October; and during much of this time, the rivers were generally either very low or entirely dry. They kept the rain of the winter in tanks and reservoirs; and if little fell in winter, a dearth was unavoidable. See an account of a dearth in the time of Elijah, I Kings 18:5, through which almost all the cattle were lost.
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