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OCTOBER 14
My eyes will weep bitterly 2 “Judah mourns,
And run down with tears, And her gates languish;
Because the LORD’s flock has been They mourn for the land,
taken captive. And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
3 Their nobles have sent their lads for
Say to the king and to the queen mother, water;
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“Humble yourselves; They went to the cisterns and found no
Sit down, water.
For your rule shall collapse, the crown They returned with their vessels
of your glory.” empty;
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The cities of the South shall be shut They were ashamed and confounded
up, And covered their heads.
And no one shall open them; 4 Because the ground is parched,
Judah shall be carried away captive, For there was no rain in the land,
all of it; The plowmen were ashamed;
It shall be wholly carried away captive. They covered their heads.
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Lift up your eyes and see
20 Yes, the deer also gave birth in the
Those who come from the north. field,
Where is the flock that was given to you, 6 But left because there was no grass.
Your beautiful sheep? And the wild donkeys stood in the
What will you say when He punishes
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you? They sniffed at the wind like jackals;
For you have taught them Their eyes failed because there was no
grass.”
To be chieftains, to be head over you.
Will not pangs seize you, 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify
Like a woman in labor? against us,
And if you say in your heart, Do it for Your name’s sake;
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“Why have these things come upon me?” For our backslidings are many,
For the greatness of your iniquity We have sinned against You.
Your skirts have been uncovered, 8 O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time
Your heels made bare. of trouble,
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or Why should You be like a stranger in
the leopard its spots? the land,
Then may you also do good who are And like a traveler who turns aside to
accustomed to do evil. tarry for a night?
9 Why should You be like a man
24 “Therefore I will scatter them like astonished,
stubble Like a mighty one who cannot save?
That passes away by the wind of the Yet You, O LORD, are in our midst,
wilderness. And we are called by Your name;
This is your lot, Do not leave us!
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The portion of your measures from 10
Me,” says the LORD, Thus says the LORD to this people:
“Because you have forgotten Me “Thus they have loved to wander;
And trusted in falsehood. They have not restrained their feet.
Therefore I will uncover your skirts Therefore the LORD does not accept
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over your face, them;
That your shame may appear. He will remember their iniquity now,
27 I have seen your adulteries And punish their sins.”
And your lustful neighings, 11
The lewdness of your harlotry, Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray
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Your abominations on the hills in the for this people, for their good. When they
fields. fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
Woe to you, O Jerusalem! offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will
not accept them. But I will consume them by
Will you still not be made clean?”
the sword, by the famine, and by the pesti-
The word of the LORD that came to lence.”
14 Jeremiah concerning the droughts. 13 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the

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