Jeremiah 14:1–10

1  The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2  Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goeth up. 3  And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads. 4  Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads. 5  For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh its young, because there is no grass. 6  And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. 7  Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name’s sake; for our backslidings are many—we have sinned against thee. 8  Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night? 9  Why wilt thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name: leave us not.

10  Thus saith Jehovah to this people: Even so have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet; and Jehovah hath no delight in them: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.