Jeremiah 14 (NET)

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Jeremiah 14:1¹This was the Lord ’s message to Jeremiah about the drought.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:8

Jeremiah 14:2²“The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 3:26 Jer 8:21 1 Sam 5:12 Lam 4:8-9 Zech 7:13 Jer 11:11 1 Sam 9:16 Exod 2:24 Hos 4:3 Isa 15:5

Jeremiah 14:3³The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 15:30 2 Kgs 18:31 Jer 2:13 Ps 40:14 Amos 4:8 1 Kgs 17:7 1 Kgs 18:5-6 2 Sam 19:4 Esth 6:12 Isa 45:16-17

Jeremiah 14:4⁴They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Joel 1:11 Joel 1:19-20 Jer 3:3 Deut 29:23 Joel 1:17 Lev 26:19-20 Deut 28:23-24

Jeremiah 14:5⁵Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 29:9 Isa 15:6 Job 39:1-4

Jeremiah 14:6⁶Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 2:24 Job 39:5-6 Joel 1:18 1 Sam 14:29 Lam 4:17 Lam 5:17

Jeremiah 14:7⁷Then I said, “O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name even though our sins speak out against us. Indeed, we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 25:11 Hos 5:5 Jer 14:20-21 Isa 59:12 Jer 5:6 Dan 9:5-16 Jer 2:19 Dan 9:18-19 Eph 1:12 Eph 1:6

Jeremiah 14:8⁸You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:13 Jer 50:7 Isa 43:3 Ps 50:15 Isa 43:11 Isa 45:21 Joel 3:16 Ps 37:39-40 1 Tim 1:1 2 Cor 1:4-5

Jeremiah 14:9⁹Why should you be like someone who is helpless, like a champion who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, and we belong to you. Do not abandon us!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:1 Isa 63:19 Jer 15:16 Num 11:23 Num 14:15-16 Ps 46:5 2 Cor 6:16 Dan 9:18-19 Exod 29:45-46 Heb 13:5

Jeremiah 14:10¹⁰Then the Lord spoke about these people. “They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 9:9 Hos 8:13 Ps 119:101 Amos 5:22 Jer 6:20 Heb 8:12 Jer 31:34 1 Kgs 17:18 1 Sam 15:2 Hos 11:7

Jeremiah 14:11¹¹Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for good to come to these people!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:16 Jer 11:14 Exod 32:32-34 Exod 32:10 Jer 15:1

Jeremiah 14:12¹²Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 11:11 Ezek 8:18 Prov 1:28 Ezek 14:21 Jer 6:20 Mic 3:4 Zech 7:13 Jer 16:4 Jer 24:10 Ezek 5:12-17

Jeremiah 14:13¹³Then I said, “Oh, Sovereign Lord, look! The prophets are telling them that you said, ‘You will not experience war or suffer famine. I will give you lasting peace and prosperity in this land.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 6:14 2 Pet 2:1 Jer 23:17 Jer 4:10 Mic 3:11 Jer 5:12 Jer 8:11 Ezek 13:10-16 Ezek 13:22 Jer 1:6

Jeremiah 14:14¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, “Those prophets are prophesying lies while claiming my authority! I did not send them. I did not commission them. I did not speak to them. They are prophesying to these people false visions, worthless predictions, and the delusions of their own mind.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 13:6-7 Ezek 12:24 Jer 29:8-9 Isa 30:10-11 Jer 29:31 Lam 2:14 2 Thess 2:9-11 Jer 27:9-10 Jer 23:21-32 Jer 5:31

Jeremiah 14:15¹⁵I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying, ‘No war or famine will happen in this land.’ But I, the Lord, say this about them: ‘War and starvation will kill those prophets.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 5:12-13 Ezek 14:10 1 Kgs 22:25 2 Pet 2:1-3 2 Pet 2:14-17 Amos 7:17 Jer 20:6 Jer 23:14-15 Jer 28:15-17 Jer 29:20-21

Jeremiah 14:16¹⁶The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 15:2-3 Jer 7:33 Prov 1:31 Ps 79:2-3 Jer 13:22-25 Jer 16:4 Jer 18:21 Isa 9:16 Jer 19:6-7 Jer 2:17-19

Jeremiah 14:17¹⁷“Tell these people this, Jeremiah: ‘My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 8:21 Jer 13:17 Jer 9:1 Lam 1:15-16 Lam 2:13 Mic 6:13 Isa 37:22 Jer 10:19 Lam 2:18 Ps 119:136

Jeremiah 14:18¹⁸If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest— they go peddling in the land but they are not humbled.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 7:15 Lam 1:20 Jer 8:10 Deut 28:36 Jer 5:31 Jer 52:6-7 Jer 6:13 2 Pet 2:3 Deut 28:64 Isa 28:7

Jeremiah 14:19¹⁹Then I said, “Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 8:15 Lam 5:22 1 Thess 5:3 Jer 6:30 2 Kgs 17:19-20 Jer 12:8 Jer 15:18 Jer 30:13 Job 30:26 Ps 78:59

Jeremiah 14:20²⁰Lord, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 3:25 Ps 32:5 1 John 1:7-9 Luke 15:18-21 Dan 9:5-8 Jer 3:13 Lev 26:40-42 Ps 106:6-48 Ps 51:3-4 2 Sam 12:13

Jeremiah 14:21²¹For the honor of your name, do not treat Jerusalem with contempt. Do not treat with disdain the place where your glorious throne sits. Be mindful of your covenant with us. Do not break it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:7 Ps 106:45 Jer 3:17 Dan 9:15-19 Ezek 36:22-23 Jer 17:12 Ps 89:39-40 Amos 6:8 Dan 8:11-13 Dan 9:7

Jeremiah 14:22²²Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Joel 2:23 Jer 5:24 Ps 135:7 Isa 30:23 Deut 32:21 1 Kgs 17:1 1 Kgs 17:14 Deut 28:12 Isa 41:29 Jer 10:15