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Jeremiah 14:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Judah mourns; her city gates languish. Her people are on the ground in mourning; Jerusalem’s cry rises up.

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Then her gates  will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.


I am broken by the brokenness of my dear people. I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.


Those who did not die were afflicted with tumours, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.


Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the Lord of Armies.


‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape.  They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.


Nations writhe in horror before them; all faces turn pale.


The fields are destroyed; the land grieves; indeed, the grain is destroyed; the new wine is dried up; and the fresh oil fails.


For this reason the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes, along with the wild animals  and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear.


Our skin is as hot  as an oven from the ravages of hunger.


Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground; he has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates. Her king and her leaders live among the nations, instruction  is no more, and even her prophets receive no vision from the  Lord.


Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.


How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its residents, animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, ‘He cannot see what our end will be.’  ,


Because of this, the earth will mourn; the skies above will grow dark. I have spoken; I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back from it.’


The land mourns and withers; Lebanon is ashamed and wilted. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.


The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.


The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away.


My heart cries out over Moab, whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah; they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping; they raise a cry of destruction on the road to Horonaim.


For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.


but caused the poor to cry out to him, and he heard the outcry of the needy.


‘At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him ruler over my people Israel.  He will save them from the Philistines because I have seen the affliction of my people,  for their cry has come to me.’


God heard their groaning, and God remembered  his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


In the streets they cry  for wine. All joy grows dark; earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.


They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.


The nations have heard of your dishonour, and your cries fill the earth, because warrior stumbles against warrior and together both of them have fallen.


The Lord determined to destroy the wall of Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not restrain himself from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls grieve; together they waste away.


I have summoned a drought on the fields and the hills, on the grain, new wine, fresh oil, and whatever the ground yields, on people and animals, and on all that your hands produce.’


Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.


Announce a sacred fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the  Lord your God, and cry out to the  Lord.





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