<p class="poetry">The prophets will prove to be full of wind.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has not spoken through them.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So, let what they say happen to them.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat.<n id="1" /> There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

Not one of them will survive.<n id="1" /> I will bring disaster on those men from Anathoth who threatened you.<n id="2" /> A day of reckoning is coming for them.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The people I call my own<n id="1" /> have turned on mep> <p class="poetry">like a lion<n id="2" /> in the forest.p> <p class="poetry">They have roared defiantly<n id="3" /> at me.p> <p class="poetry">So I will treat them as though I hate them.<n id="4" />p>

But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent<n id="1" /> and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands<n id="2" /> and to their own country.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah<n id="2" /> about the drought.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They are dismayed because the ground is cracked<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because there has been no rain in the land.p> <p class="poetry">The farmers, too, are dismayedp> <p class="poetry">and bury their faces in their hands.p>

<p class="poetry">Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn<n id="1" /> in the fieldp> <p class="poetry">because there is no grass.p>

<p class="poetry">You have been the object of Israel&#8217;s hopes.p> <p class="poetry">You have saved them when they were in trouble.p> <p class="poetry">Why have you become like a resident foreigner<n id="1" /> in the land?p> <p class="poetry">Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?p>

&#8220;Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

<t /><p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, you coerced me into being a prophet,p> <p class="poetry">and I allowed you to do it.p> <p class="poetry">You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Now I have become a constant laughingstock.p> <p class="poetry">Everyone ridicules me.p>

<p class="poetry">Cursed be the day I was born!p> <p class="poetry">May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he did not kill me before I came from the womb,p> <p class="poetry">making my pregnant mother&#8217;s womb my grave forever.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The descendants of Jacob will enjoy their former privileges.p> <p class="poetry">Their community will be reestablished in my favor<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will punish all who try to oppress them.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke<n id="1" /> to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.<n id="2" />

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The following events also occurred<n id="1" /> while the Babylonian forces<n id="2" /> had temporarily withdrawn from Jerusalem<n id="3" /> because the army of Pharaoh was coming.

<p class="bodytext">On the day after Gedaliah had been murdered, before anyone even knew about it,

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah about the nations.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Set up a gravestone for Moab,p> <p class="poetry">for it will certainly be laid in ruins!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Its cities will be laid wastep> <p class="poetry">and become uninhabited.&#8221;p>