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Jeremiah 14:3

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The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads.

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But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up.

The king covered his face and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

“Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

Afterward Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief,

They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

May all who want to take my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads.

Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails.

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them.

But the Lord is with me like a mighty warrior; so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced; their dishonor will never be forgotten.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.

Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

“I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.

People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.




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