Jeremiah 14:18-20
1599 Geneva Bible
18 For if I go into the field, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are sick for hunger also: moreover, the Prophet also and the Priest go a wandering [a]into a land that they know not.
19 Hast thou utterly rejected [b]Judah, or hath thy soul abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten us, that we cannot be healed? We looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.
20 We [c]acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
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- Jeremiah 14:18 Both high and low shall be led captives into Babylon.
- Jeremiah 14:19 Though the Prophet knew that God had cast off the multitude, which were hypocrites, and bastard children, yet he was assured that for his promise sake he would have still a Church, for the which he prayeth.
- Jeremiah 14:20 He teacheth the Church a form of prayer to humble themselves to God by true repentance, which is the only means to avoid this famine, which was the beginning of God’s plagues.
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