13:19. The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity. 13:20. Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle? 13:21. What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour? 13:22. And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled. 13:23. If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil. 13:24. And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert. 13:25. This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood. 13:26. Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared. 13:27. I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet? Jeremias Chapter 14 A grievous famine: and the prophet's prayer on that occasion. Evils denounced to false prophets. The prophet mourns for his people. 14:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of the drought. 14:2. Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 14:3. The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads. 14:4. For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandman were confounded, they covered their heads. 14:5. Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass. 14:6. And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass. 14:7. If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee. 14:8. O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble: why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge? 14:9. Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not. 14:10. Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins. 14:11. And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.