Jeremiah 14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Jeremiah 14The Great Drought

1 nobles send their servants for water;

they come to the cisterns;

they find no water;

they return with their vessels empty.

They are ashamed and dismayed

and cover their heads,

4

they pant for air like jackals;

their eyes fail

because there is no herbage.

7 famine!

For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land

and have no knowledge.

The People Plead for Mercy

19 Jer 6.30; 8.15; 30.13; 1 Thess 5.3 Have you completely rejected Judah?

Does your heart loathe Zion?

Why have you struck us down

so that there is no healing for us?

We look for peace but find no good,

for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.

20 Jer 3.25; 8.14 We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord,

the iniquity of our ancestors,

for we have sinned against you.

21 v 7 ; Jer 3.17; 17.12Do not spurn us, for your name’s sake;

do not dishonor your glorious throne;

remember and do not break your covenant with us.

22 Isa 41.4, 29; 43.10; Jer 5.24; 10.3; Lam 3.26 Can any idols of the nations bring rain,

or can the heavens give showers?

Is it not you, O Lord our God?

We set our hope on you,

for it is you who do all this.