Jeremiah 14

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Judea mourned, and her gates were emptied and were darkened upon the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem went up.

And her nobles sent their younger ones for water; they came to the cisterns and found no water, and they returned with their vessels empty.

And the works of the land ceased, for there was no rain. The farmers were ashamed; they covered their heads.

And deer in the field gave birth and abandoned their young, because there was no herbage.

Wild asses stood upon the wooded glens; they drew in the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass, on account of a people of injustice.

Though our sins have risen against us, O Lord, act for us for your own sake; for our sins are many before you, for against you we have sinned.

O endurance of Israel, O Lord, you who also save in the time of evils, why have you become like a sojourner in the land, and like a native turning aside to a lodging?

Do not be like a man asleep, or like a man unable to save. Yet you are among us, O Lord, and your name has been called upon us; do not forget us.

Thus says the Lord to this people: They loved to move their feet and did not restrain themselves; and God took no pleasure in them. Now he will remember their iniquities.

And the Lord said to me: Do not pray for good things for this people.

For though they fast, I will not listen to their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will not be pleased with them; for with sword and with famine and with death I will finish them off.

And I said: O Lord, behold, their prophets prophesy and say: You shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you, for I will give truth and peace upon the land and in this place.

And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I did not send them, and I did not command them, and I did not speak to them; for they prophesy to you false visions and divinations and auguries and the choices of their own heart.

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy lies in my name, and I did not send them, who say: Sword and famine shall not be upon this land: by a sickly death they shall die, and by famine the prophets shall be consumed.

And the people to whom they prophesy, they shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem before the sword and the famine, and there shall be none to bury them, they and their wives and their sons and their daughters; and I will pour out their evils upon them.

And you shall say to them this word: Let tears run down from your eyes day and night, and let them not cease, for with a great fracture the daughter of my people has been crushed, and with a very painful wound.

If I go out into the plain, behold, those slain by the sword; and if I enter the city, behold, the anguish of famine. For both priest and prophet have gone into a land which they did not know.

Have you utterly rejected Judah? And has your soul departed from Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We waited for peace, but there was no good; for a time of healing, and behold, trouble.

We acknowledge, O Lord, our sins, the iniquities of our fathers, for we have sinned before you.

Cease, for your name's sake; do not destroy the throne of your glory. Remember; do not break your covenant that is with us.

Is there among the idols of the nations one who gives rain? Or can the sky give its abundance? Are you not he? And we will wait for you, for you have done all these things.