27ADULTERI<ES> YOUR AND NEIGHINGS YOUR [THE] WICKEDNESS OF PROSTITUTION YOUR ON HILLS IN THE FIELD I HAVE SEEN DETESTABLE THINGS YOUR WOE! TO <THE> YOU O JERUSALEM NOT YOU ARE CLEAN AFTER WHEN? YET 27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
1WHICH IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO JEREMIAH ON [THE] MATTERS OF THE DROUGHTS Drought, Famine, Sword, and Plague 1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
2IT IS IN MOURNING JUDAH AND GATES ITS THEY ARE LANGUISHING THEY ARE IN MOURNING TO THE EARTH AND [THE] OUTCRY OF JERUSALEM IT HAS GONE UP 2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
3AND NOBLE [ONES] THEIR THEY HAVE SENT SERVANTS THEIR FOR <THE> WATER THEY HAVE COME TO [THE] CISTERNS NOT THEY HAVE FOUND WATER THEY HAVE RETURNED VESSELS THEIR EMPTY THEY ARE ASHAMED AND THEY ARE HUMILIATED AND THEY HAVE COVERED HEAD THEIR 3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
4FOR SAKE OF THE GROUND [WHICH] IT IS CRACKED FOR NOT IT HAS COME RAIN IN THE LAND THEY ARE ASHAMED FARMERS THEY HAVE COVERED HEAD THEIR 4The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
5FOR ALSO A DOE IN THE FIELD IT HAS GIVEN BIRTH AND IT HAS ABANDONED FOR NOT IT IS GRASS 5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
6AND WILD DONKEYS THEY HAVE STOOD ON [THE] BARE HEIGHTS THEY HAVE PANTED FOR BREATH LIKE <THE> JACKALS THEY HAVE FAILED EYES THEIR FOR THERE NOT [IS] VEGETATION 6Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals;*NoteCloseOr serpents or dragons their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
7THOUGH INIQUITIES OUR THEY HAVE TESTIFIED AGAINST <THE> US O YAHWEH ACT FOR [THE] SAKE OF NAME YOUR FOR THEY ARE MANY APOSTASIES OUR TO <THE> YOU WE HAVE SINNED 7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
8O HOPE OF ISRAEL DELIVERER ITS IN A TIME OF DISTRESS <TO> WHY? ARE YOU LIKE A SOJOURNER IN THE LAND AND LIKE A TRAVELER [WHO] HE HAS TURNED ASIDE TO SPEND [THE] NIGHT 8O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
9<TO> WHY? ARE YOU LIKE A PERSON ASTOUNDED LIKE A WARRIOR [WHO] NOT HE IS ABLE TO SAVE AND YOU [ARE] IN MIDST OUR O YAHWEH AND NAME YOUR ON US IT IS CALLED MAY NOT YOU ABANDON US 9Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
10THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH OF THE PEOPLE <THE> THIS THUS THEY HAVE LOVED TO WANDER FEET THEIR NOT THEY HAVE RESTRAINED AND YAHWEH NOT HE HAS ACCEPTED THEM NOW HE WILL REMEMBER INIQUITY THEIR SO HE MAY PUNISH SINS THEIR 10This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
11AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO ME MAY NOT YOU PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE <THE> THIS FOR GOOD 11Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
12FOR THEY WILL FAST NOT I [WILL BE] LISTENING TO CRY OF ENTREATY THEIR EVEN IF THEY WILL OFFER UP A BURNT OFFERING AND A GRAIN OFFERING NOT I [WILL BE] ACCEPTING THEM FOR BY THE SWORD AND BY <THE> FAMINE AND BY <THE> PESTILENCE I [WILL BE] BRINGING TO AN END <OBJ.> THEM 12Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
13AND I SAID ALAS! O LORD YAHWEH HERE! THE PROPHETS [ARE] SAYING TO <THE> THEM NOT YOU WILL SEE SWORD AND FAMINE NOT IT WILL HAPPEN TO <THE> YOU FOR PEACE OF RELIABILITY I WILL GIVE TO <THE> YOU IN THE PLACE <THE> THIS 13“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
14AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO ME FALSEHOOD THE PROPHETS [ARE] PROPHESYING IN NAME MY NOT I SENT THEM AND NOT I APPOINTED THEM AND NOT I SPOKE TO THEM A VISION OF FALSEHOOD AND DIVINATION AND AN IDOL AND [THE] DECEITFULNESS OF OWN HEART THEIR THEY [ARE] PROPHESYING TO <THE> YOU 14“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
15<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH ON THE PROPHETS WHO ARE PROPHESYING IN NAME MY AND I NOT I SENT THEM AND THEY [ARE] SAYING SWORD AND FAMINE NOT IT WILL HAPPEN IN THE LAND <THE> THIS BY THE SWORD AND BY <THE> FAMINE THEY WILL MEET THEIR END THE PROPHETS <THE> THOSE 15Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
16AND THE PEOPLE WHOM THEY [ARE] PROPHESYING TO <THE> THEM THEY WILL BE THROWN OUT IN [THE] STREETS OF JERUSALEM <FROM> BECAUSE OF THE FAMINE AND THE SWORD AND NOT A BURIER [WILL BELONG] TO THEM THEM WIVES THEIR AND SONS THEIR AND DAUGHTERS THEIR AND I WILL POUR OUT ON THEM <OBJ.> WICKEDNESS THEIR 16And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
17AND YOU WILL SPEAK TO THEM <OBJ.> THE WORD <THE> THIS LET THEM RUN DOWN EYES MY TEAR[S] NIGHT AND BY DAY AND MAY NOT THEY CEASE FOR A BREAKING GREAT SHE HAS BEEN BROKEN [THE] VIRGIN OF [THE] DAUGHTER OF PEOPLE MY A WOUND MADE SICK VERY 17You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
18IF I WENT OUT THE FIELD AND THERE! [THOSE] SLAIN OF A SWORD AND IF I WENT THE CITY AND THERE! DISEASES OF FAMINE FOR BOTH PROPHET AS WELL AS PRIEST THEY HAVE GONE ABOUT TO A LAND AND NOT THEY KNOW 18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
19¿ REALLY <TO REJECT> HAVE YOU REJECTED <OBJ.> JUDAH OR? <IN> ZION DOES IT ABHOR SELF YOUR WHY? HAVE YOU STRUCK US AND NOT [BELONGS] TO <THE> US HEALING WE WAITED EAGERLY FOR PEACE AND THERE NOT [WAS] GOOD AND FOR A TIME OF HEALING AND THERE! TERROR A Prayer for Mercy (Isaiah 63:15–19) 19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
20WE KNOW O YAHWEH WICKEDNESS OUR [THE] INIQUITY OF ANCESTORS OUR FOR WE HAVE SINNED TO <THE> YOU 20We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
21MAY NOT YOU SPURN FOR [THE] SAKE OF NAME YOUR MAY NOT YOU TREAT WITH CONTEMPT [THE] THRONE OF GLORY YOUR REMEMBER MAY NOT YOU BREAK COVENANT YOUR WITH US 21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
22¿ [ARE] THERE AMONG [THE] VANITIES OF THE NATIONS [THOSE WHO] SEND RAIN AND OR? THE HEAVENS DO THEY GIVE COPIOUS SHOWERS ¿ NOT YOU [IS] IT O YAHWEH GOD OUR SO WE MAY WAIT EAGERLY FOR <THE> YOU FOR YOU YOU HAVE DONE <OBJ.> ALL THESE [THINGS] 22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.