Jeremiah 14:7-12
New King James Version
7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
Do it (A)for Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.
8 (B)O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble,
Why should You be like a stranger in the land,
And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why should You be like a man astonished,
Like a mighty one (C)who cannot save?
Yet You, O Lord, (D)are in our midst,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not leave us!
10 Thus says the Lord to this people:
(E)“Thus they have loved to wander;
They have not restrained their feet.
Therefore the Lord does not accept them;
(F)He will remember their iniquity now,
And punish their sins.”
11 Then the Lord said to me, (G)“Do not pray for this people, for their good. 12 (H)When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and (I)when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But (J)I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
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Jeremiah 14:19-22
New King James Version
The People Plead for Mercy
19 (A)Have You utterly rejected Judah?
Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that (B)there is no healing for us?
(C)We looked for peace, but there was no good;
And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.
20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness
And the iniquity of our (D)fathers,
For (E)we have sinned against You.
21 Do not abhor us, for Your name’s sake;
Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory.
(F)Remember, do not break Your covenant with us.
22 (G)Are there any among (H)the idols of the nations that can cause (I)rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
(J)Are You not He, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait for You,
Since You have made all these.
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