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17 You will say this word to them:
“Let my eyes overflow with tears.
Night and day, may they never stop.
For the virgin daughter of my people
        is crushed with a great blow,
        with a sorely infected wound.”

Intercessory Confession

18 If I go out into the field,
        see, those slain by the sword!
    And if I enter into the city,
        see, the sick with famine!
    For both prophet and kohen
    will travel to a land they do not know.
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 shalom,
        but nothing good came,
        and for a time of healing,
        but suddenly, terror![a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:19 cf. 1 Thes. 5:3.