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Jeremiah 14:10 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. "
Jeremiah 14:10
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O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave
Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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Jeremiah 14:1
"The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth."
Jeremiah 14:2
"Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up."
Jeremiah 14:3
"And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads."
Jeremiah 14:4
"Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads."
Jeremiah 14:5
"Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass."
Jeremiah 14:6
"And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass."
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