Jeremiah 14:1-16
spoke .... about <01697> [A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. The word.]
This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew {batzaroth,} rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.
drought <01226> [the dearth. Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints.]
mourning <056> [mourneth.]
cities <08179> [the gates.]
sorrow <06937> [they.]
Cries of distress <06682> [the cry.]
leading men <0117> [their nobles.]
cisterns <01356> [pits.]
Disappointed <0954> [they were.]
bury <02645> [covered.]
ground <0127> [the ground.]
farmers <0406> [the plowmen.]
Wild donkeys <06501> [the wild.]
pant <07602> [they.]
They sucked in the air, for want of water, to cool their internal heat.
eyes <05869> [their.]
sins <05771> [though.]
intervene <06213> [do.]
turned away <04878> [for our.]
hopes <04723> [the hope.]
saved <03467> [saviour.]
when <06256> [in time.]
resident foreigner <01616> [why.]
traveler <0732> [a wayfaring.]
cannot <03201> [cannot.]
us <07130> [art.]
you <08034 07121> [we are called by thy name. Heb. thy name is called upon us.]
abandon <03240> [leave.]
love <0157> [have they.]
keep .... away <02820> [refrained.]
Lord ..................... I <03068> [the Lord.]
call to mind <02142> [he will.]
fast <06684> [they fast.]
offer <05927> [and when.]
famines <03615> [but.]
Oh <0162> [Ah.]
prophets <05030> [behold.]
lasting peace <07965 0571> [assured peace. Heb. peace of truth.]
prophets <05030> [The prophets.]
send <07971> [I sent.]
predictions <07081> [divination.]
delusions <08649> [and the.]
war ... famine ............... War ... starvation <02719 07458> [Sword and famine shall not.]
people <05971> [the people.]
thrown <07993> [be cast.]
pour <08210> [for.]
