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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 14
The Word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning
the words of the drought.
Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen,
and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of
Jerusalem is gone up.
The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they
came to draw, they found no water, they carried back
their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted,
and covered their heads.
For the destruction of the land, because there came
no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded,
they covered their heads.
Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left
it, because there was no grass.
And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed
up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because
there was no grass.
If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord,
do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are
many, we have sinned against thee.
O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time
of trouble: why wilt thou be a stranger in the land,
and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge?
Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man
that cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and
thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not.
Thus saith the Lord to his people, that have loved to
move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased
the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and
visit their sins.
And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for
their good.
When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if
they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive
them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine,
and by the pestilence.
And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say
to them: You shall not see the sword, and there shall
be no famine among you, but he will give you true peace
in this place.
And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely
in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded
them, nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto
you a lying vision, and divination and deceit, and the
seduction of their own heart.
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets
that prophecy in my name, whom I did not send, that
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 prophecy, shall be cast
out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the fanmine
and the sword, and there shall be none to bury them:
they and their wives, their sons and their daughters,
and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes
shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease,
because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted
with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous
evil.
If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with
the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them
that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and
the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.
Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred
Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is
no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there
is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold
trouble.
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities
of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's sake, and
do not disgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember,
break not thy covenant with us.
Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles
that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers?
art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for?
for thou hast made all these things. |
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