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Jeremiah
Chapter
14
{Chapter
14-19 Fifth Oracle/Dissertation - Means of Avoiding 5th Cycle of Discipline}
{Chapter
14-15 Part I of Oracle 5 - The Depression}
1
The word of Jehovah/God
that
came to Jeremiah
concerning
the dearth.
2
Judah mourns,
and
the gates thereof languish.
They
are black unto the ground;
and
the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters.
They
came to the pits,
and
found no water;
they
returned with their vessels empty.
They were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4
Because the ground is chapped,
for
there was no rain in the earth,
the
plowmen were ashamed,
they
covered their heads.
5
Yes, the hind/doe also calved in the field, and forsook it,
because
there was no grass.
6
And the wild asses did stand in the high places,
they
snuffed up the wind like dragons.
Their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
7
O Jehovah/God, though our iniquities testify against us,
do
you it for your name's sake . . .
for
our backslidings are many;
we
have sinned against you.
8~~You
the hope of Israel,
Its
deliverer in time of distress,
why
are You like a stranger in the land,
or
like a traveler who pitched his tent for a night?
9
Why should you be as a man astonished,
as
a mighty man who cannot deliver/save?
Yet
you, O Jehovah/God, are in the midst of us,
and
we are called by your name;
leave
us not.
10
Thus said Jehovah/God unto this people,
Thus
have they loved to wander,
they
have not refrained their feet,
therefore
Jehovah/God does not accept them.
He will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
11
Then said Jehovah/God unto me,
Pray
not for this people for their good.
12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry;
and
when they offer burnt offering and an oblation,
I
will not accept them.
But
I will consume them by the sword,
and
by the famine, and by the pestilence.
13``
Then said I, Ah, Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah!
Behold,
the prophets say unto them,
you
shall not see the sword,
neither
shall you have famine;
but
I will give you assured peace in this place.
{Verses
14-15: Where the Liberals Tell them to Go}
14~~Then
Jehovah/God said unto me,
"The
prophets {national counsel of prophets}
prophesy
lies in My Name.
I
sent them not,
neither
have I commanded them,
neither
spoke unto them.
They
prophesy unto you a false vision
and
divination/'hocus pocus',
and
a thing of nothing {idols},
and
the deceit of their 'right lobes'/heart.
15~~Therefore
thus said Jehovah/God
concerning
the prophets who prophesy in My Name,
and
I sent them not,
yet
they say,
"Sword
and famine shall not exist in this land {peace brother}."
By sword and famine shall those prophets be destroyed!
{Note: The false prophets say everything will be just fine! No economic disaster. No wars! They endorse false religions to 'appease the people' and stay in power. They have no real love of the Lord or even really have a relationship with Him at all.}
16~~And
the people to whom they prophesy
{they all have congregations}
shall
be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem
because
of the famine and the sword.
And
they shall have none to bury them . . .
them,
their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters.
For I will pour their wickedness upon them.
17~~Therefore
you shall say this word unto them,
"Let
My eyes run down with tears night and day
{God's tears at the bottom of the broken Jug},
and
let them not cease.
For
the virgin daughter of my people is broken
with
a great breach,
with
a very grievous blow.
18
If I go forth into the field,
then
behold the slain with the sword!
And
if I enter into the city,
then
behold those who are sick with famine!
Yes,
both the prophet and the priest go about
into
a land that they know not.
19 Have you utterly rejected Judah?
Has your soul loathed Zion?
Why
have you smitten us,
and
there is no healing for us?
We
looked for peace, and there is no good;
and
for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
20
We acknowledge, O Jehovah/God,
our
wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers
for
we have sinned against you.
21
Do not abhor us, for your name's sake,
do
not disgrace the throne of your glory.
Remember, break not your covenant with us.
22
Are there any among the vanities/emptinesses {false gods}
of
the Gentiles that can cause rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are not you he, O Jehovah/God our 'Elohiym/Godhead?
Therefore we will wait upon you.
For you have made all these things.
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