What a heartsore story spoken in Jeremiah chapter 14. People and animals suffering from drought with no food or water. I cannot imagine what it was like to be in this situation of not having water to drink, it must have been very tough to survive.
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourns, and her gates droop. They put on mourning for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Jeremiah 14:3-6 speaks of struggles the people and animals are going through because of no water.
With the water dried up with the grass, is showing that Yahuah's presence is not with the people any longer due to their sin and rebellion.
Jeremiah 14:7-9 O Yahuah, though our iniquities witness against us, act, for Your Name’s sake. For our apostasies have been many, we have sinned against You. O Expectation of Yisra’el, its Savior in time of distress, why should You be like a stranger in the land, or like a traveler who turns aside to lodge? Why should You be as one who is stunned, as a mighty man that is unable to save? Yet You, O Yahuah, are in our midst, and Your Name has been called on us. Do not leave us!
Some people realize their sins and plead for Yah to save them. They plead “YAH DO NOT LEAVE US!”
Jeremiah 14:10-12 So says Yahuah to this people: So, they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore, Yahuah does not accept them. He will now recall their iniquity and punish their sins. Then Yahuah said to me, do not pray for good for this people. I will not listen to their cry when they fast; and when they offer burnt offering and food offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the plague.
This sounds like an Almighty that does not have grace or mercy but you need to read all the books of the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel etc.) to understand how Yahuah came to this point that He would no longer be with this rebellious people.
A parent having a child that is rebellious would act in the same manner as Yahuah, after speaking and warning many times having no choice but to punish the child. Punish does not mean the parent did not love the child but a manner to help the child learn and turn away from been rebellious. The same thing happened to Israel, Yah’s punishment is done in love for His people.
Punishment is not nice but a true person will learn and turn away from sin.
In Jeremiah 14:13-16, the prophet says to Yahuah that there are so-called prophets that tell the people Yah will not punish them but they will prosper. Yahuah then warns these false prophets that they will be punished together with the people listening to their false lies.
Read Jeremiah 23:11-36 of these false prophets and their lies.
In Jeremiah 14:17-18, Yahuah’s heart is full of sorrow.
People ask in Jeremiah 14:19 Have You completely rejected Judah? Or has Your soul hated Sion? Why have You stricken us and no healing is for us? We waited for peace, but nothing good came; and for a healing time, but, behold, terror!
People acknowledge their wickedness in Jeremiah 14:20.
People plead more in Jeremiah 14:21-22 Do not scorn us, for Your Name’s sake. Do not despise the throne of Your esteem. Remember, do not break Your covenant with us. Are there among the worthless idols of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O Yahuah our Elohim? And we wait for You, for You are the One who does all this.
Are we in this same stage of been rebellious and at a point where punishment is coming or will we turn away from sin before it happens?
Are we shouting out, “YAH DO NOT LEAVE US!”
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