Jeremiah 14:1

Jeremiah 14:1

Sword, Famine, and Pestilence

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.

2 “Judah mourns,
And ^aher gates languish;
They ^bmourn for the land,
And ^cthe cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

3 Their nobles have sent their lads for water;
They went to the cisterns and found no water.
They returned with their vessels empty;
They were ^aashamed and confounded
^bAnd covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is parched,
For there was ^ano rain in the land,
The plowmen were ashamed;
They covered their heads.

5 Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field,
But¹ left because there was no grass.

6 And ^athe wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights;
They sniffed at the wind like jackals;
Their eyes failed because there was no grass.”

7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
Do it ^afor Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.

8 ^aO the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble,
Why should You be like a stranger in the land,
And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?

9 Why should You be like a man astonished,
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!

10 Thus says the Lord to this people:
^a“Thus they have loved to wander;
They have not restrained their feet.
Therefore the Lord does not accept them;
^bHe will remember their iniquity now,
And punish their sins.”

11 Then the Lord said to me, ^a“Do not pray for this people, for their good.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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PROPHECIES ON THE OCCASION OF A DROUGHT SENT IN JUDGMENT ON JUDEA. (Jer. 14:1-22)

Literally, "That which was the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah concerning the dearth"

drought—literally, the "withholdings," namely, of rain (Deuteronomy 11:17; II Chronicles 7:13). This word should be used especially of the withholding of rain because rain is in those regions of all things the one chiefly needed (Jeremiah 17:8, Margin).

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