Jeremiah 14:17-19

New International Reader's Version

“ ‘Let tears flow from my eyes.
    Let them pour out night and day.
    Never let them stop.
The people of my own nation
    have suffered a terrible wound.
    They have been crushed.
¹⁸ Suppose I go into the country.
    Then I see people who have been killed by swords.
Or suppose I go into the city.
    Then I see people who have died of hunger.
Prophet and priest alike have gone to a land
    they hadn’t known about before.’ ”

¹⁹ Lord, have you completely turned your back on Judah?
    Do you hate the city of Zion?
Why have you made us suffer?
    We can’t be healed.
We hoped peace would come.
    But nothing good has happened to us.
We hoped we would finally be healed.
    But all we got was terror.