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Jeremiah 14 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Jer 14:1

Jer 14:1The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

Jer 14:2

Jer 14:2Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Jer 14:3

Jer 14:3Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

Jer 14:4

Jer 14:4Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

Jer 14:5

Jer 14:5And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

Jer 14:6

Jer 14:6And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

Jer 14:7

Jer 14:7Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

Jer 14:8

Jer 14:8O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

Jer 14:9

Jer 14:9Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

Jer 14:10

Jer 14:10This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.

Jer 14:11

Jer 14:11And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.

Jer 14:12

Jer 14:12When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

False Prophets

Jer 14:13

Jer 14:13Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.

Jer 14:14

Jer 14:14Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.

Jer 14:15

Jer 14:15So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.

Jer 14:16

Jer 14:16And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

Jer 14:17

Jer 14:17And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

Jer 14:18

Jer 14:18If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

Jer 14:19

Jer 14:19Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

Jer 14:20

Jer 14:20We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

Jer 14:21

Jer 14:21Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.

Jer 14:22

Jer 14:22Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
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