41:1 At the end of two full years
14:1 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah
14:2 “The people of Judah are in mourning.
The people in her cities are pining away.
They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow.
Cries of distress come up to me
14:3 The leading men of the cities send their servants for water.
They go to the cisterns,
They return with their containers
Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.
14:4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked
because there has been no rain in the land.
The farmers, too, are dismayed
and bury their faces in their hands.
14:5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn
because there is no grass.
14:6 Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops
and pant for breath like jackals.
Their eyes are strained looking for food,
because there is none to be found.”
ק (Qof)
2:19 Get up! Cry out in the night
when the night watches start!
Pour out your heart
before the face of the Lord!
Lift up your hands
for your children’s lives;
they are fainting
at every street corner.
ר (Resh)
2:20 Look, O Lord! Consider!
Whom have you ever afflicted
Should women eat their offspring,
their healthy infants?
Should priest and prophet
be killed in the Lord’s
ט (Tet)
4:9 Those who died by the sword
than those who die of hunger,
those who
struck down