Jeremiah · 22 verses
Jeremiah 14
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The prophets who promise that sword and famine will not come are told that sword and famine will come for them. Their reassurance turns out to be the very sentence that condemns them.
A land with nothing to pourvv. 1–9
The word comes to Jeremiah concerning drought, and the scene is impressively short of water. Judah mourns, Jerusalem cries out, nobles send servants to empty cisterns, farmers cover their heads, and even a doe deserts her newborn because the grass has gone. Wild donkeys pant on barren heights; the jars, at least, have the good sense to return empty rather than make promises. Then the people confess their rebellions and ask why the LORD, whom they insist is among them, seems first like a passing stranger and then like a surprised warrior powerless to save.
The reassurance that does not survivevv. 10–18
The LORD answers that this people love to wander and that their iniquity will now be remembered. Fasting, offerings, and cries will not alter the sentence: sword, famine, and plague are named together, a grim little procession. Jeremiah objects that the prophets are promising lasting peace, but the LORD calls their visions lies and says they were neither sent nor appointed. The prophets who say no sword or famine will touch the land will meet their end by sword and famine themselves. The people, meanwhile, will lie unburied in Jerusalem’s streets. Jeremiah is told to speak of tears that do not cease, while country and city show the same disaster in different clothing; prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know, and the text leaves that land precisely there, unknown.
A final question about rainvv. 19–22
The people ask whether Judah has been rejected completely and confess both their own wickedness and the guilt of their fathers. They ask that the glorious throne not be disgraced and that the covenant not be broken. Then, after all the famine and sword, the closing question is about rain: can worthless idols or the skies themselves provide it? The answer is folded into the question, and hope is placed in the LORD, who has done all these things.
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Jer 14:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Jer 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Jer 14:3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
Jer 14:4The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
Jer 14:5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Jer 14:6Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
Jer 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
Jer 14:8O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
Jer 14:9Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
Jer 14:10This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
Jer 14:11Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
Jer 14:12Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
Jer 14:13“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
Jer 14:14“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
Jer 14:15Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
Jer 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
Jer 14:17You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
Jer 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
Jer 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Jer 14:20We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
Jer 14:21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
Jer 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
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Where this is echoed
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- 14Ezekiel 13:6–7They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
- 22Joel 2:23Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- 22Jeremiah 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- 11Jeremiah 7:16As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
- 22Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- 2Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
- 7Psalms 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
- 14Ezekiel 12:24For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,
- 14Jeremiah 29:8–9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
- 7Hosea 5:5Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
- 7Jeremiah 14:20–21We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
- 14Lamentations 2:14The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
- 14Isaiah 30:10–11They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
- 14Jeremiah 29:31“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
- 21Jeremiah 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
- 22Isaiah 30:23Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
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