1 The word of Yahweh concerning drought came to Jeremiah:
2 Judah mourns, the cities languish, desolate, they sink to the ground. From Jerusalem a cry is heard.
3 The rich sent the poor for water, but they found none at the cisterns, and returned with empty vessels.
4 The soil is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and have covered their heads like mourners.
5 Even the doe in the fields abandons her newborn calf because there is no pasture.
6 The wild donkeys stand on the heights sniffing the air like jackals and languish as they find not even a thistle!
7 Even if our faults accuse us, you Yahweh, work for the glory of your Name. In truth, many have been our rebellions and great is our sin against you.
8 O Yahweh! Hope of Israel, you who save in the time of distress, why are you as a stranger in this land, or like a traveler who stays only a night?
9 Why should you be as if bewildered, like a warrior unable to save? But you are in our midst Yahweh, and on us your Name has been invoked. Do not abandon us!
10 This is what Yahweh says about this people, "They like to wander here and there, not stopping for a moment, so Yahweh takes no pleasure in them; he remembers their wickedness and will punish their sins."
11 And Yahweh said, "Do not pray for the well-being of this people!
12 If they fast I will not listen to their cry; if they offer me burnt offerings and oblations, I will not accept them. Instead I am going to make an end of them with sword, famine and plague."
13 And I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! You know what the prophets are saying to them: 'You will not see the sword nor suffer famine for I will give you true peace in this place.'"
14 But Yahweh said, "These prophets have proclaimed untruths in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. False visions, worthless divinations and delusions of their own imagination - that is what they prophesy."
15 And Yahweh added, "These prophets whom I did not send and who prophesy in my name, saying that the sword and famine will not touch this land - these same prophets will perish by the sword and famine.
16 As for the people listening to them, their corpses will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or daughters, when they die of famine and by the sword. For I shall make their own malice fall upon them.
17 This you will say to them: Let my eyes shed tears night and day without ceasing! For with a great wound has the virgin daughter of my people been wounded, a most grievous wound.
18 If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword. If I enter the city I see the ravages of famine. For the prophet and the priest did not understand what was happening in the land."
19 Have you then rejected Judah forever? Do you abhor Zion? Why have you wounded us and left us with no hope of recovery? We hoped for salvation but received nothing good; we waited for healing, but terror came!
20 Yahweh, we know our wickedness and that of our fathers, and the times we have sinned against you.
21 For your name's sake do not despise us; do not dishonor the throne of your glory. Remember us. Do not break your covenant with us!
22 Among the worthless idols of the nations, are there any who can bring rain, or make the skies send showers? Only in you, Yahweh our God, do we hope, for it is you who do all this.
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Jeremiah 14 deals with the lack of rain in Judah and the cry of the people to God to send rain. However, God tells Jeremiah that he will not send rain because the people are wicked and did not repent. The chapter ends with Jeremiah praying to God in the name of the people, asking for forgiveness and help. Following are five verses related to the topics addressed in Jeremiah 14:
Deuteronomy 28:23-24: "Heaven over your head will be bronze, and the earth under your feet, of iron. The Lord will give by rain over your earth powder and dust; be destroyed. " These verses show how lack of rain is a sign of God's disapproval that can lead to destruction.
1 Kings 17:1: "Then Elijah, The Tesbite, of the residents of Gilead, said to Ahab: 'As certain as the Lord lives, God of Israel, before whose face I am, that in these years neither dew nor rain there will be, but according to my word. '"These verses talk about Elijah, a prophet who, under God's command, brought the drought to Israel as a judgment for the sins of the people.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14: "If I close the sky, and there is no rain; or to order the grasshops to consume the earth; or to send the plague between my people; and if my people are called for My name, humble yourself, and pray, and seek my face, and convert from your evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive your sins and heal your land. " These verses show that God promised to forgive and heal the earth if the people repent and pray to Him.
Isaiah 55:10-11: "For, just as the rain and snow of heaven, and they do not make it first set off the earth, and fertilize it, and make it sprout, to give seed to the sower and bread to bread What eats, this will be the word that comes out of my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will do what will be pleased and prosper in that I have sent it. " These verses show how rain is a symbol of God's Word that can bring life and prosperity.
Zechariah 10:1: "Peda to the Lord rain in the time of late rain, yes, to the Lord, who makes the lightning; and will give them abundant rain, and to each one, weed in the field." This verse talks about how God can send rain and prosperity if the people pray and ask with faith.
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